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@supernova@social.privacytools.io
OK first impressions after 30 minutes. I tried both Plasma Mobile Neon and Plasma Mobile Manjaro. Neon is definitely snappier. I couldn't find any way to add new apps to Manjaro. Both connected to WiFi fine.
It came with a screen protector already installed from the factory. Nice touch!
I am keeping my notes on testing PinePhone here. https://github.com/Perelandra0x309/braveheart-notes
I will post tips on getting things working as I discover them and list the good/bad things I find. I only did a brief test of each OS this weekend.
Scratch that. Moved to a more own source friendly platform. https://codeberg.org/Supernova/braveheart-notes
Ubuntu Touch is by far the best OS I have tried on the PinePhone. I am really impressed. Very responsive, no major UI issues of windows not fitting within the screen size, gestures work very well. Briefly tried the OpenStore to install some web apps, haven't tried any flatpak or anything yet.
@supernova
Post your impressions, planning to get one sooner or later
@supernova
This and UbuntuTouch look the best imo
@nikolal I've been trying to download the Ubuntu image but it keeps failing.
@supernova
With their installer? Worked fine for me but my latest install was more than year ago on Nexus 5
@nikolal No it's a bit different with the PinePhone. You download an .img file then burn that to an SD card. https://gitlab.com/ubports/community-ports/pinephone
@supernova that's pretty neat. I'm thinking of switching to mint on my desktop.
@Wetrix That is an excellent choice. I recently switched to that from Debian on one of my hone PCs.
@supernova
You can do that with regular android and termux, just don't know how far can you go with it
@nikolal You mean adb shell? I never really played with that much. Maybe its the same. But with a Debian based system I am familiar with it. And you can do ssh keys, is that possible with adb?
@supernova
No, I mean SSH. I use termux and SSH to connect to remote machines, but its possible to connect to Android phone from othet machine, see here for details.
https://wiki.termux.com/wiki/Remote_Access
@supernova
Here is about what termux is capable of:
https://wiki.termux.com/wiki/Main_Page
@nikolal OK I see, yeah I'm not surprised that you can setup an ssh server with Termux. I never really felt the need to do that with Android, installing packages just by downloading the apk worked well enough and I never ran across any situation in my use cases where a CLI would be necessary. Using a mainline derived distro on a phone though the CLI is just so much easier since many things are accomplished this way.
@supernova
Yes, I've never had need to access my phone with CLI either, but I have need for termux only to maintain my remote machines, also I use termux to run pythin scripts from my raspberry pi for some calculation needs, so it does come in handy for me.
@supernova
Ony bad thing with Termux is that it doesn't have consistent connectivity, meaning that your phone has to be awake and screen focused on app for it to maintain ssh connection. If you have needs for better connectivity than termux you can use this, people say its prommising.
https://mosh.org/
@nikolal I wonder if you disable battery optimization in Termux if that would force it to remain active. Just be sure to exit when you are truly done so not to waste battery!
