New Linux Mobile Operating Systems section and PinePhone (Pro) as a daily driver

Sat, 20 Apr 2024 0:11:00 Dan

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Linux Mobile

A new section popped up in our wiki - Linux Mobile!
Based for now only on a PinePhone (Pro) specifically on a braveheart (original PP - latest motherboard) and explorer (PPP).
Arch Linux ARM and postmarketOS are the operating systems included in the wiki. It only contains the option to create the images on your Arch system. It covers DanctNIXs Arch Linux ARM build script and postmarketOSs pmbootstrap.

PinePhone as a daily driver?

Nope.
I wrote an article in 2021 or so about a daily driven PinePhone that I never published. I couldn't find it anymore, so here's just a bit about it in relation to the new wiki section basically.
I used the PinePhone Original for about 9 months with the Pine64s keyboard, but the brick in the pocket (don't run without a proper belt around your hip!) was really annoying, but without the keyboard the phone couldn't run for a day. The battery searched and found the number 0 (%) very quickly.
So the PP is not at all useful for me as a daily driver, I would like to use it without the keyboard. I use a phone mainly as a phone - calls, texting and browsing. And that brings me straight to the next main drawback, calls (back then, maybe fixed now?) had a few issues. The other side couldn't hear me, or I never got a call. That happened randomly. The PPP has even more issues, but it's much faster than the PP, so it's more interesting for me.
I hope that all the issues will "disappear" one day, because Linux Mobile is the future for me to finally get away from the crappy way that Android comes with. After about 15 years of rooting, flashing and so on, I want to finally get that out of my head and start enjoying the freedom that Linux Mobile already offers on the other side!
The few disadvantages it has, it also has a lot of potential! Backups for example, suuuper easy! No TWRP, no nand backups or other weird ways to have "backups" of the system, or apps blocking backups and so on, oh Android can be very annoying!
A proper firewall ... yes everything you can do with Linux ;)

So Linux Mobile must be part of our wiki! Time to own your own phone! Especially the phone is a big part of our digital everyday life!

Have a good weekend!
Dan

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Dan

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I'm a long-time user and enthusiast of open source software and espouse the philosophy that software code should be open (readable). So that everyone can see what happens behind the scenes while we use our electronic devices every day.