I got my PineBook Pro last week and was honestly surprised at the solid build quality. It's a really neat little device and has been a blast to tinker with.
I'm really glad this community exists and has been fun to watch it grow.
I got a PBP around when they first started shipping. I mostly love it, but there’s a strange drift on the trackpad that discourages me from using it more. I wonder if that was just an issue on early units. Have you noticed that the trackpad seems to have issues?
I'm personally very excited about Megapixels (the camera app) being ported to GTK4. With GTK4's graphics acceleration support, I expect that the UI of these phones will get a lot smoother once most of the apps are running on GTK4.
What I can't figure out is how Phosh on PinePhone could take 5 seconds just to open a window e.g. to turn wifi on/off, when the Nokia N900, also a GTK-based system and running on more primitive hardware, managed to have a very snappy and responsive UI. Surely this can't be a matter of mere graphics acceleration, there must be a great deal of bloat in all the underlying libraries.
Missed my chance to grab the first "production" PineTimes, glad to see another batch is coming soon. It really feels like the ecosystem they're building is starting to come together at this point.
nazgulsenpai|4 years ago
I'm really glad this community exists and has been fun to watch it grow.
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