[kwlug-disc] PinePhone woes

Mark Steffen mark at steffen.ca
Wed Nov 3 12:08:35 EDT 2021


The PinePhone PRO looks like it has the specs to be a daily driver, I 
don't think the original Pinephone will be anything but a niche use 
case/testing device.  It's just too slow for real world use unless you 
have the patience of  Job.

On 2021-11-03 12:00 p.m., Khalid Baheyeldin wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 3, 2021 at 2:25 AM Paul Nijjar via kwlug-disc 
> <kwlug-disc at kwlug.org <mailto:kwlug-disc at kwlug.org>> wrote:
>
>     So what I am hearing is that a Pinephone is not reliable as a daily
>     phone yet, regardless of the distro you use?
>
>     The Pine64 people are releasing a lot of products! It looks like
>     software support is lagging behind, though.
>
>
> That has been a common trend in all the China/Taiwan/Korea based 
> boards in the past
> decade or so.
>
> The various Raspberry Pi clones are always better hardware wise, but 
> always lag when
> it comes to software. They release an almost working distro, and it 
> never gets updated.
> Then they release a better board, with newer software and that 
> stagnates too.
>
>
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