Gentoo on phone:
featuring:
- the experience of pain - now portable
- compiling a single package using 8 phones and distcc
- waiting
- recompiling kernel and then wondering how it went wrong
- reading manuals 24/7 using a different phone
all of this and more for the admireable price of your sanity
The title isn’t technically wrong :p
It definitely isn’t fast, but I use it as my main phone. Of course for the majority of “heavy” uses I prefer the PBP of my main computer.
what kind of linux apps do you use on that phone?
The same ones as on my desktop mainly (Telegram, email, Firefox, Matrix, OTP, Deja-Dup, RSS reader, Podcast, Lollipop, Mastodon…), plus some nice extra tools like SSH. A few months ago it used to crash quite often, but these days I get a crash maybe once a week.
damn this phone is so cool. I think I want it
It’s cool! Just diff expectations that an android one.
Lack of app make it a dealbreaker for some.
Maybe a lack of mobile specific commercial proprietyware, but you have thousands of vetted and maintained programs available in the distro repositories!
The issue is that many of them don’t display correctly, like part of the app is cut off and there’s no scroll bar. The repo apps aren’t optimized for a phone’s screen dimensions. I say this as a proud Pinephone owner running Mobian as we speak. Linux phones would benefit greatly from phone-optimized apps but that will obviously take quite a bit of time to get there.
This
The Pinephone with Linux is like the PC with Linux, not everyone will be satisfied, just like a PC with Windows or OSX or a smartphone with Android. Any issue has the potential to be a catalyst for new software. Simply, a device that opens some new possibilities is what we have. Sxmo is a good example of this.
