Good god, linux mobile desktops are getting performant af now 😲
There's still bugs, and times when I don't want all these animations if it costs battery. But damn, plasma mobile is starting to feel almost daily usable. It's definitely nicer to look at than my typical bearbones phosh. 🤳🏿
The windowing is a lil tough on a small screen but works well enough. This would be pretty sick on a tablet
@mobian @plasmamobile
#plasmamobile #linuxmobile #pinephonepro
Oh oh, figured out how to pin apps to get proper tiling. I'm so in love right now 🥰
Our time together is very precious. Damnit I might be motivated enough to move to SD card OSes so I can get proper sleep modes working.
Ok there's enough interest, I should probably repeat the classic Linux phone warning:
This is technically a phone, BUT...
While it has all the features of a phone and looks like a phone it will probably still let you down a bit if you need to rely on it.
The pine phone pro in particular is interesting for how open the hardware is. There's definitely better performing closed hardware you can run mobile linux on. But pine phone rn is the most open source friendly OEM.
@nullagent Do you know about the #librem5 ? https://shop.puri.sm/shop/librem-5/ probably to expensive to just tinker around with, but definitely daily driveable with #linuxmobile (calling, camera & gps etc. works, although the battery is quiet bad, too).
@MissBehave I haven't tried one physically yet but they are the team behind Phosh so I expect the best overall integration of any platform.
I'd definitely be curious if the sleep modes and battery work better than pinephone.
However... their hardware looks painfully thick, is closer to OG pinephone performance (think raspi 3B) while pinephone pro has 6 cores, an additional 1GB of RAM and a 128GB eMMC instead of only 32GB on Librem.
Pinephone pro is $399
Librem 5 is $999
@nullagent @MissBehave FYI there's a huge performance gap between PinePhone and Librem 5. L5 feels much closer to PPP than OG PP, for several reasons in their specs that people miss at first glance (GPU, LPDDR4, L1 cache, fast eMMC...)
@dos @nullagent @MissBehave L5 also supports 5ghz wifi, while the OG PP only supports 2.4ghz. I was actually hoping to drop 2.4ghz from my access point since I live in a crowded area and performance is atrocious, but my PP still requires it.
@dos @MissBehave
Thanks for the comment! Makes a ton of sense