Phosh 0.56.0

Seemed interesting until I read that Phosh pulls in GNOME - gnome-settings, gnome-session etc. Seems like a very strange bundle to bring in for an extremely power constrained device, where every % of increased battery drain is noticed by the user

Re: Phosh 0.56.0

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Post by kop316 » Sun, Jul 05, 2026, 2:04 PM UTC

jstanley wrote: post #2

What are the best phones/distros to use phosh with?

I have a oneplus6 and use a mobile version of Debian called "Mobian". postmarketOS is a really good choice, and they have a wiki of supported devices: https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Devices

Re: Phosh 0.56.0

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Post by realusername » Sun, Jul 05, 2026, 2:06 PM UTC

awestroke wrote: post #5

Seemed interesting until I read that Phosh pulls in GNOME - gnome-settings, gnome-session etc. Seems like a very strange bundle to bring in for an extremely power constrained device, where every % of increased battery drain is noticed by the user

It works kind of okay for recent devices as phones are very powerful nowadays, Phosh on a <2015 device is much more painful though.

Re: Phosh 0.56.0

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Post by hirako2000 » Sun, Jul 05, 2026, 2:23 PM UTC

The fact I thought it was a custom UI over stock android means they got this well rounded.

Re: Phosh 0.56.0

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Post by gf000 » Sun, Jul 05, 2026, 2:25 PM UTC

awestroke wrote: post #5

Seemed interesting until I read that Phosh pulls in GNOME - gnome-settings, gnome-session etc. Seems like a very strange bundle to bring in for an extremely power constrained device, where every % of increased battery drain is noticed by the user

Why? What's particularly heavy in these gnome tools?

Like the particular programs are no issue, but the whole UNIX-userspace as done in the mainframe era and still is. Like you definitely need cooperative program suspend/resume like on Android for any kind of sane battery life, but that's unfortunately completely missing in case of GNU/Linux.

Re: Phosh 0.56.0

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Post by tim-projects » Sun, Jul 05, 2026, 2:30 PM UTC

gf000 wrote: post #9

awestroke wrote: post #5

Seemed interesting until I read that Phosh pulls in GNOME - gnome-settings, gnome-session etc. Seems like a very strange bundle to bring in for an extremely power constrained device, where every % of increased battery drain is noticed by the user

Why? What's particularly heavy in these gnome tools? Like the particular programs are no issue, but the whole UNIX-userspace as done in the mainframe era and still is. Like you definitely need cooperative program suspend/resume like on Android for any kind of sane battery life, but that's unfortunately completely missing in case of GNU/Linux.

Gnomes' a massive memory hog

I was looking at this and thinking maybe it would improve a cheap android phone. But now I know it's running gnome I won't even consider trying