I switched from Plasma to Phosh recently and I gotta say, it's wayyy more responsive and less prone to freezing, crashing, or softlocking. Still look forward to development in both of course.
Good comparison, I'm excited to see how all of the Pinephone distros mature in the coming months. I've stuck with UBports for now but I will eventually get round to testing the others.
@@Carbon_Fiber Hello, I use a OnePlus One with UBports, it is very stable and reliable. I have a OnePlus 5T which I will eventually use with UBports once the port has matured a bit. I think Pine64 would love to go down the modular route like PCs in the future but for now no one is doing that. We can dream lol.
I prefer the fixed (or optionally automatic) rotation modes of phosh(change with long press). I can just by pressing(in the fixed mode) rotate the orientation to landscape, without needing to acctually tilt my phone or needing to keep it tilted for it to stay. I also like to get the keyboard on or off the display, with the button.
Also I don’t think the sim card tray works. Tried to stick mines in but my Pine Phone doesn’t detect it. If they make a more powerful version, I want this to be resolved. And I also want the Pine Phone sim card and micro SD card to be easily removable without turning off the device and removing the battery. And bigger battery!
Even now (three years later) Plasma is still relatively new... performance has improved a lot but naturally still isn't quite there. I'll staying team Plasma though, purely because I'm in love with the look of both Plasma Mobile and Plasma Desktop, and both environments seem to be shaping out to become a strong alternative to more popular OSs like Windows and Android. Suspect I won't live to see the day that finally happens though...
Nice Comparison. I am still looking for one OS for my Daily Driver Test. Especially App development to target all OSs is kind of a pain ... Does the Plasma Screenshot Quick-Button work, haven't tested that, to be honest. :D
I've just ordered my third. One's screen broke after a while(I might sat on it too hard over an edge) and the other one I lost in the river, but it's modem wasn't working anymore anyway due to previous water damage. You can still order the convergence package right now.
To me phosh just genuinely seems a lot better the icons look a bit worse and the ui on plasma seems cool to but phosh to me looks a lot more minimal and fast
About loading time for apps on plasma. Was it the first time you launched plasma apps on that mobile? Plasma setts up a bunch of config files the first time you launch an app and hence the longer time to launch.
The difference is quite obvious. Qt loads much more unnecessary overhead during launch of any application. Sure, when Purism announced to use GTK, people were right that it was missing GPU acceleration in comparison with Qt. But they really underrated the slow storage and memory. So a smaller library for UI only like GTK is quite an advantage. I really hope Phosh transitions fully to GTK4. Then it should turn out pretty smooth overall.
@@PizzaLovingNerd Thanks, I just had a look. Did you just plug the HDMI cable into the dongle, or did you have to change a setting? When I plug the cable in, the monitor doesn't recognise any device, and nothing changes on the Pinephone screen either to suggest it knows it's plugged in to another screen.
@@timocarliermusic I just use a dongle to plug it in. Not that older models such as the Brave heart and the Ubuntu Touch model have a hardware issue that prevents it from working.
Meanwhile android is still the best, which is surprising because alternatives have had forever to catch up... And is still at least running a Linux kernel...
