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Trying out Phosh shell on PinePhone and openSUSE Tumbleweed

Trying out Phosh shell on PinePhone and openSUSE Tumbleweed

During my time with Phosh on PinePhone and openSUSE Tumbleweed, I have stumbled on a couple of issues that made clear that the experience still needed some polish. This is not a critic against the Phosh or the GNOME project. I don’t envy the developers that need to ensure that their app works across many form factors. However, I can see that the additional time that the KDE project has spend on polishing their experience has paid off. In this…

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Real Linux on a Smartphone: PinePhone and openSUSE Tumbleweed

Real Linux on a Smartphone: PinePhone and openSUSE Tumbleweed

Why is that phone so special? My wife asked me. I was exited like a child with my shiny new toy: the PinePhone KDE Community Edition. So how do you explain the history of failing efforts to get ‘real’ Linux on a smartphone in 5 minutes? How do you explain the difficulties of developing an operating system for the always changing ARM ecosystem? I tried: It’s not normal that you can install an Operating System on a phone. Normally you…

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