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justinlilly | 4 years ago

One of the key FAQs missing is: Is it ready? Should I use it? What should I expect my experience to be?

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kop316|4 years ago

I like to think Mobian is one of the "mature" Pinephone Distros, i.e. if there is something that doesn't work on Mobian, it will not work on any Pinephone/Librem 5 Distro.

> Should I use it?

I mean...of course i will say "yes you should!", so I guess I am more curious what you are expecting or if you have specific expectations?

> What should I expect my experience to be?

Mobian uses Phosh as the default environment, so if you have used any Pinephone Distribution with Phosh, that's about what to expect.

If you have not used Phosh....well to be honest I do not know of any good Video reviews for it, but I imagine such videos exist.

phist_mcgee|4 years ago

That doesn't exactly answer the question though on expectations. Is the OS stable? Are there apps that crash a lot? Should I be aware of any shortcomings that would hamper a normal phone experience?

Arnavion|4 years ago

Compared to other distros on the pinephone, it's hampered by having Debian as a base system. The pinephone's singular camera program Megapixels is stuck on an older version on Mobian, because the newer versions require GTK 4, which Debian and thus Mobian does not package.

(You can of course compile the GTK 4 stack yourself if you want. It's Linux after all.)

kop316|4 years ago

Yep. So far the plan is once Bullseye moves to stable, I think we are going to look into porting GTK4 into Mobian, as Megapixels and a few other apps are moving to GTK4.

mobian|4 years ago

Mobian is targeting Debian Testing/Sid. Debian is currently in freeze but after the upcoming release Mobian will start getting regular updates for every package.