Anyone use one of those Linux phones like pine phone or librem.

I was looking at a few months ago but settled on a deggooled phone. Are there user friendly distros for them?

  • Matt@lemmy.one
    501·
    1 year ago

    They are not ready for regular use yet. Performance is poor and battery life is bad. It’s fun to play with my Pinephone and watch the software slowly improve, but there is no way I could use it as my primary phone.

    • InFerNo
      6·
      1 year ago

      The only real issue holding it back for me is the battery life. I update the danctnix distro regularly to check progress, but the battery life is not production ready.

      • Shatur
        2·
        1 year ago

        You could buy the Pine keyboard to extend the battery life.

        • InFerNo
          1·
          1 year ago

          True, I have considered it but

          • They don’t come cheap
          • They make it less a phone and more a mini laptop by having to open it up to use
          • Increases thickness
          • Shatur
            1·
            1 year ago

            Sure, there are drawbacks, but I think it worth it. It not only fixes the battery life, but also provides hardware typing which is important because we don’t have swipe-typing.

            I wish they made a slider keyboard…