| ▲ | Phosh 0.56.0(phosh.mobi) |
| 75 points by edward an hour ago | 15 comments |
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| ▲ | jarbus 23 minutes ago | parent | next [-] |
| Linux has long been the most practical laptop OS for me, but I can't see it ever being competitive with mobile OSes, and that's coming from someone who wants it to succeed (I've installed postmarketOS on a OP6T). I just don't see how it will overcome the various issues (app support, tap-to-pay, camera quality, etc). |
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| ▲ | shevy-java 5 minutes ago | parent [-] | | Oddly enough I am using Win10 right now on my laptop. On my
main computer I use linux but I also got tired having to set
up things specifically for the laptop or be locked down in
a specific distribution; plus, I also have to run various
software on the laptop and when the rest of the class or
group uses Windows, and you are the sole Linux person, it
feels very lonely. So I fake being a win user in that case. |
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| ▲ | IshKebab a minute ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Terrible name. It's going to fail on those grounds alone. Not that it would really succeed otherwise. You need Android app compatibility to stand a remote chance. |
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| ▲ | hirako2000 33 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| The fact I thought it was a custom UI over stock android means they got this well rounded. |
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| ▲ | shevy-java 6 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| The name sounds like someone driving by at high speed ... |
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| ▲ | jstanley an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| What are the best phones/distros to use phosh with? |
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| ▲ | awestroke an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Seemed interesting until I read that Phosh pulls in GNOME - gnome-settings, gnome-session etc. Seems like a very strange bundle to bring in for an extremely power constrained device, where every % of increased battery drain is noticed by the user |
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| ▲ | gf000 31 minutes ago | parent | next [-] | | Why? What's particularly heavy in these gnome tools? Like the particular programs are no issue, but the whole UNIX-userspace as done in the mainframe era and still is. Like you definitely need cooperative program suspend/resume like on Android for any kind of sane battery life, but that's unfortunately completely missing in case of GNU/Linux. | | |
| ▲ | tim-projects 25 minutes ago | parent [-] | | Gnomes' a massive memory hog I was looking at this and thinking maybe it would improve a cheap android phone. But now I know it's running gnome I won't even consider trying | | |
| ▲ | gcr 14 minutes ago | parent [-] | | Every desktop environment is a massive memory hog. Do you really want something minimal like xfce on a touchscreen? | | |
| ▲ | zzril 2 minutes ago | parent [-] | | SXMO is pretty minimal in that regard, but it doesn't force you to use the touchscreen. Can also navigate through menus via the volume buttons... |
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| ▲ | realusername an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | | It works kind of okay for recent devices as phones are very powerful nowadays, Phosh on a <2015 device is much more painful though. |
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| ▲ | challengerVIE an hour ago | parent | prev [-] |
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