#pinephone sucks in performance, since my wifi replacement will hopefully get to me soon, I am gonna invest a bit more in it.

[bitspook@infosec.exchange]

#pinephone sucks in performance, since my wifi replacement will hopefully get to me soon, I am gonna invest a bit more in it. Gonna try Maemo Leste, quick searching around tells this is the lowest resource hungry #linuxmobile OS around. I am kinda gravitating toward #permacomputing these days, so it feels right

[bitspook@infosec.exchange]

Wow #maemoleste is smooth af on #pinephone ! UX is not "modern", but it is surprisingly good. I was expecting much worse. Animations never stutter, apps (default ones like settings, xterm, pdfreader etc) open reasonably fast, and it never goes above 500MB memory usage! I love it!

This might be the perfect OS for me! But I am gonna give #lomiri a shot anyway.

[jackgandy@mastodon.social]

@bitspook Yeah, the PinePhone still has potential if we focus on toolkits, applications, and environments that play well with it. If we can manage to optimize our software around this hardware, it should run very smoothly elsewhere.

[frox@tooting.ch]

@bitspook was this with a full desktop environment like phosh ? Maybe something more lightweight like #sxmo would suit you

[bitspook@infosec.exchange]

@frox Yes, phosh on Debian and postmarketos. I did try sxmo very briefly when I was trying to catch em all but wanted something more touch focused. I didn't look into how it fared in resources consumption.

[frox@tooting.ch]

@bitspook it's likely less resource hungry than phosh, but also trickier to learn. There are several touch gestures to learn for interacting with it. It's not as user friendly as phosh, and has a bit of a learning phase.
Then again, if what is lagging are large apps like Firefox, switching to a lighter DE like sxmo may not help.

[bitspook@infosec.exchange]

@frox I flashed #sxmo it idles at almost half as much memory as #maemoleste, but for some reason feels laggy. e.g opening the "menu" or "keyboard" take half a second after the gesture. Not sure if this is a #pine thing or #sxmo thing. I love the concept though. I should've read the docs instead of assuming it to be some silly experiment and discarding after first look. I'll play around some more.