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I have a "braveheart" pinephone (one of the first ones) and I just use it to play around with it's features, do distrohopping etc.)
Most of the time i used an arch build with phosh. But actually I highly recommend postmarketOS, the installer is straight forward and let you build whatever you want. Actually I run postmarketOS edge with encrypted f2fs and gnome-mobile on it. gnome-mobile works better on newer phones but it is still usable.
I prefer my grapheneOS phone because it is faster has more apps, apps are scaled correctly etc. Not too much battery drain...
PS. I managed to run Thunderbird usable on pinephone, I just play around with the look&feel and now I simply have just the mail cards and I am able to interact with it without too much scaling issues.
What is the current state of Gnome mobile? I thought that it wasn't finished yet. Is it as good as Phosh?
Phosh comes with Geary. I haven't used it, but it looks like it should work well on mobile.
Phosh is definitely more polished and an attempt to make gtk mobile friendly. I actually prefer gnome-mobile for testing purposes. It's exactly like gnome-desktop and apps are opened each in an workspace, which is an impressive solution. It also needs more resources, and its not recommended for the first pinephone.
I know about Geary. But it's not the same as a complete Thunderbird install. There I can use my smime/openpgp certs and tags are also synchronised.
Thanks! I'll probably go with a grapheneOS build next, I prefer battery life over most things for my use case. Thanks for the info!
I think Linux phones needs more time. My dream would be a phone I can plug into a docking station and work on where I stopped. Most platforms gave this dream up. But Linux is on it's way to do it. It's actually possible, thx to gtk4, libadwaita etc.
That's exciting! Probably not my use-case, but certainly a functional role!
I'm curious. Is the battery in the Pinephone of lesser capacity or is the system not optimised for longevity?
Or it still got old. I think its all of them.
The SoC is not very power efficient. There aren't many to choose from. In case of PinePhone Pro it's a 2016 SoC running modern software.