What with app development? Can I use Dart/Flutter there? What tools are used for app development? Is there a compatibility layer or something similar to adb?
PinePhone KDE Community Edition is now available
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Re: PinePhone KDE Community Edition is now available
#32The title should be changed to "PinePhone KDE Community Edition is now available"; the article is about PinePhone, not KDE.
Seconded. Pet peeve: whenever I see those comments after having the title changed, I'm curious: "what was the original title?". In this case, it was: "KDE Community Edition is now available". I just feel like it's a good idea to include this context when making a comment about the bad title so that the future readers can compare.
You might appreciate https://hackernewstitles.netlify.app/ (doesn’t help far future readers except when archived on Wayback or similar though).
Re: PinePhone KDE Community Edition is now available
#33Earlier quoted context omitted.
If it's the compositor that causes the problem, can't it be disabled? I don't know phosh but in Plasma you can disable the compositing from the system settings.
Nope, there's no option for that in phosh settings. Actually, it's the compositor (phoc) that starts gnome-session in /usr/bin/phosh. I've just tried to edit the startup script to launch gnome-session directly, but it would refuse to start. It's also a pure wayland system, so it's quite unlike what we're used on desktop.
I see, thanks for your explanations :).
Re: PinePhone KDE Community Edition is now available
#34Earlier quoted context omitted.
Another Ubuntu based distro with KDE, and one that I think most people haven’t heard about, but which I am personally fond of is KDE’s own KDE Neon. > More than ever people expect a stable desktop with cutting-edge features, all in a package which is easy to use and ready to make their own. > KDE neon is the intersection of these needs using a stable Ubuntu long-term release as its core, packaging the hottest softwar…
I wish KDENeon was around when I was kde-crazy, back in 3.x/4.x times. Finding a distro that was both reliable and able to run nightly builds of KDE apps was really really difficult. Despite all efforts of some outstanding maintainers, Kubuntu always felt like a hack, with unavoidable GNOME stuff popping out all over the place. I've tried Neon in virtualbox and it looks nice and consistent. Performance wasn't great b…
You can boot the live image from USB to take it for a spin without installing it. This way you can try it out on your current laptop even.
Re: PinePhone KDE Community Edition is now available
#35OT: Is Pinebook worth it to RDP with remmina? I'm currently using a fanless 13.5" Acer B115m but It's getting old and deteriorated (the screen plastic is peeling off...). I've been trying to find a replacement, but with better screen, which my main complaint about the B115m (I use it mainly outdoors with 4g, I need brightness), but most laptops use fans, which I'm trying to avoid. Had no luck in the <500€ range.
I've got the pinebook pro. If you want something that "just works", it's not quite there. The community is constantly working on it though. I think with full driver support it can be a great little machine.
Agreed, and will add that the trackpad on the PBP is terrible. The keyboard is barely acceptable. For real work I’d pick something else.
Re: PinePhone KDE Community Edition is now available
#36What with app development? Can I use Dart/Flutter there? What tools are used for app development? Is there a compatibility layer or something similar to adb?
It's Linux with KDE. You can use almost anything.
Re: PinePhone KDE Community Edition is now available
#37OT: Is Pinebook worth it to RDP with remmina? I'm currently using a fanless 13.5" Acer B115m but It's getting old and deteriorated (the screen plastic is peeling off...). I've been trying to find a replacement, but with better screen, which my main complaint about the B115m (I use it mainly outdoors with 4g, I need brightness), but most laptops use fans, which I'm trying to avoid. Had no luck in the <500€ range.
The obvious thing that comes to mind for fanless laptops given recent news is the Macbook Air with the M1 chip, but clearly that isn't offering a similar thing in terms of freedom and user control of the hardware/software.
It's way out off my budget.
Re: PinePhone KDE Community Edition is now available
#38Earlier quoted context omitted.
Supposedly improvements in hardware acceleration have changed this but IME a window manager with no compositing is way faster than phosh. I use fluxbox and on that firefox scrolls in real time for example.
Thanks for mentioning it. How does fluxbox works on mobile? Is it basically the same than the desktop on a small resolution, or it can receive phone calls and have a notification bar?
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Re: PinePhone KDE Community Edition is now available
#39Is there a summary of functionality for pinephone?
I’m not clear if for example the degraded mms support is an issue in all variants of mobile gnu Linux distros or oif only some suffer.
Re: PinePhone KDE Community Edition is now available
#40What with app development? Can I use Dart/Flutter there? What tools are used for app development? Is there a compatibility layer or something similar to adb?
Have a look at https://mauikit.org/ and https://develop.kde.org/frameworks/kirigami/ - the main tech stack there is Qt