𝕹𝖞𝖝 妛彁 :xf_nyxsigil: :xf_nyxdisapproving: on Nostr: dcc ✙ Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: personally my standards for whether or not I ...
dcc ✙ (npub1630…stu9) Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: (npub1ysu…2jyl) personally my standards for whether or not I care about an OS are higher than "it boots and has good battery life"
I would like just as much as anyone to be able to use mobile linux for anything. I've been following the development of mobile linux stuff for many years, since like 2015, and I've tried different things are various times (I even have a pinephone) and none of it has ever been usable for anything beyond maybe, maybe some command line stuff. but the soft keyboard on mobile linux is so dogshit that it doesn't matter -- and besides that, if you've designed an OS in the form factor of a smartphone that isn't useful or usable without an interface that is designed for a full hardware keyboard, you've fucked up bad. having the option to do stuff like open a terminal is good and should be there, but the primary way of interfacing with the phone should be graphical and not only that but it MUST be good because anything that requires a full keyboard interface will always be shit on a phone (unless we start bringing back slider keyboards, which would rule), and the GUI situation on mobile linux is just pathetic
also don't even bring up that stupid pinephone case thing that turns it into essentially a mini laptop. that makes it no longer have the form factor of a phone. I get that making a slideout keyboard is way harder to do as a small company, but what they ended up with doesn't solve my problems. I'd sooner use an MNT Pocket Reform since that at least is designed around the concept of being a small laptop
I would like just as much as anyone to be able to use mobile linux for anything. I've been following the development of mobile linux stuff for many years, since like 2015, and I've tried different things are various times (I even have a pinephone) and none of it has ever been usable for anything beyond maybe, maybe some command line stuff. but the soft keyboard on mobile linux is so dogshit that it doesn't matter -- and besides that, if you've designed an OS in the form factor of a smartphone that isn't useful or usable without an interface that is designed for a full hardware keyboard, you've fucked up bad. having the option to do stuff like open a terminal is good and should be there, but the primary way of interfacing with the phone should be graphical and not only that but it MUST be good because anything that requires a full keyboard interface will always be shit on a phone (unless we start bringing back slider keyboards, which would rule), and the GUI situation on mobile linux is just pathetic
also don't even bring up that stupid pinephone case thing that turns it into essentially a mini laptop. that makes it no longer have the form factor of a phone. I get that making a slideout keyboard is way harder to do as a small company, but what they ended up with doesn't solve my problems. I'd sooner use an MNT Pocket Reform since that at least is designed around the concept of being a small laptop