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Linux phones (self.linux)

submitted 1 year ago by joel_feila to c/[email protected]

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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?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I am well aware, but the PPP included some expensive "premium" features like licensed gorrilla glas and so on, which do nothing for the developer experience and made the price unattractive for a impulse buy to tinker with it. If they can sell the Pinebook Pro for around 250€ they could have also made a Pinephone Pro for 300€, but it actually costs double that.

Compared to the original PinePhone the developer uptake of the PPP has been really slow and as a result the software support is severely lacking even now, more than a year after the initial availability.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I am well aware, but the PPP included some expensive “premium” features like licensed gorrilla glas and so on, which do nothing for the developer experience

It's great when developers daily drive what they write since it's a community project and there is no quality control. I personally was happy when PPP was announced and bought it because I couldn't daily drive PP, the hardware is too outdated for me. I honestly would prefer even RK3566, its more powerful and less hungry. But users can still can buy PP.

Compared to the original PinePhone the developer uptake of the PPP has been really slow

PP is around since 2020. And it was in a similar state. Also initial GNU/Linux support were different. Especially camera.

And I also made a mistake in my first comment. I wanted to write that all issues are software issues. I'm so sorry.