I was going through Pine64’s page again after I found the latest KDE announcement. With that said, I seem to see a lot of issues with firmware on the Pine, whilst the Librem is just plain out of budget for me. Was interested in how many people here run a Linux mobile as a daily driver, and how has your experience been?
I’m considering purchasing the Pine but I’d like a better screen, more RAM and a better CPU. Don’t know if I should wait for a new model to be released (are they even planning to do that? Is the company active?). I will only really use it to browse the Web, and might even look to desolder a couple of parts that I know I won’t use.
Thanks.
Edit: I am willing to watch content and use banking apps from the browser. Do you think it’ll be fit for me?
Edit 2: overall, I am much saddened about the state of affairs regarding private computing on the go. I desperately hope that Linux on mobile takes off, even though its incubation looks disheartening at the moment. Thank you everyone for your comments.
Why not try lineageo OS? I’ve been daily driving it for one year now and it’s reliably if you don’t throw magisk modules at it for fun.
I threw magisk modules at it for fun and it’s still reliable.
If you have bootlop saver you can throw whatever. I have like six of them
I don’t have it, thanks for telling me about it
No problems. It’ll automatically disable all scripts so youll have to manually enable them in case of bootfail.
Doesn’t safe mode do that as well?
As far as I know no. You probably could use adb to remove the scripts tho
Which recent devices other than the Pixels are supported?
A lot? They have a pretty big list and for all I know all are stable. https://wiki.lineageos.org/devices/
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No. To root you need to extract boot.img, patch it in the app then flash it while in bootloader.