I haven’t used either of those directly but have started looking into linux on a tablet (Plasma mobile mainly) and things are definitely rough… nowhere near the polish of Android or iOS (understandably) and the app store options are not great / hacky
I’m just getting into things here, but my guess is that if you want to try a linux phone, if you’re OK living in a world that’s closer to the first days of smartphones than the current fairly-advanced smartphone, you might only be slightly or mildly frustrated. If you’re looking for a modern smartphone experience, you’re probably going to have a bad time.
That said, the lack of viable options for smartphones is terrible and it’s somewhere I’d like to invest some time contributing to open-source projects to improve
the pinephone is NOT even remotely usable, i have one and it’s hilariously terrible, even the most lightweight UI that literally just uses simple text dialog boxes for everything is slow and it’s incredibly clunky.
https://pine64.org/devices/pinephone/ https://jolla.com/
I haven’t used either of those directly but have started looking into linux on a tablet (Plasma mobile mainly) and things are definitely rough… nowhere near the polish of Android or iOS (understandably) and the app store options are not great / hacky
I’m just getting into things here, but my guess is that if you want to try a linux phone, if you’re OK living in a world that’s closer to the first days of smartphones than the current fairly-advanced smartphone, you might only be slightly or mildly frustrated. If you’re looking for a modern smartphone experience, you’re probably going to have a bad time.
That said, the lack of viable options for smartphones is terrible and it’s somewhere I’d like to invest some time contributing to open-source projects to improve
the pinephone is NOT even remotely usable, i have one and it’s hilariously terrible, even the most lightweight UI that literally just uses simple text dialog boxes for everything is slow and it’s incredibly clunky.
That’s disappointing but good to know.