My current Android phone’s battery is on it’s last legs (and it’s glued together so I can’t replace it), and I fear it’s time to move on to greener pastures. I’m really excited for the recent developments in “pure Linux” phones so my first thought was to get one of those when I switch. Either that or I could try to get a Fairphone and put a degoogled ROM on it, but it seems they only ship to Europe.

Does anyone have any experience with using the Pinephone as a daily driver? How are the Linux operating systems in terms of stability and availability of software that’s compatible with the mobile form factor?

  • Halce
    5•3 years ago

    Flash Mobian (https://mobian-project.org) using Jumpdrive, it would go faster than loading it from an SD card, use a nightly image, as kernel 5.9 significantly improves audio call quality. I have my primary SIM card in the phone since that update landed a few weeks ago.

    As for applications, there are a bunch of good ones I use:

    • gnome-feeds for RSS
    • gnome-dictionary - a dictionary
    • gnote - Basic, quick note-taking
    • geary for email
    • setzer for Latex
    • marker for Markdown
    • sublime-music for subsonic (set scale-to-fit sublime-music on) in Terminal first
    • tootle for Mastodon
    • cawbird for Twitter
    • Polari - IRC
    • Fractal - Matrix