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"But my friend runs a PinePhone as a daily driver" (lemmy.ml)
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[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I'm optimistic about the apps and desktop environments. We have made huge progress. But the problem is the hardware support. It seems that there are very few ARM SoCs, which work well with the mainline Linux kernel. So PinePhone uses a 2010 SoC and PinePhone Pro a 2016 SoC. And after all that time and despite community's efforts to upstream everything, the mainline support is still not complete and we still use custom kernels.

https://blog.mobian.org/posts/2023/09/30/paperweight-dilemma/

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Yes, but that's exactly my point. The need for hardware support shrinks if the hardware doesn't change every few months. A chip from a few years ago is still very fine. That was not the case in 2009.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

Ah, good point.