Librem 5 Evergreen vs. PinePhone (Part 2)

adopt one of these two devices.Between the two phones, the Librem 5 has definitely surprised me the most in terms of actual Pinephone and Librem 5.I didn’t really have another spot to talk about this, but Ubuntu Touch has of late been maintaining will continue to get better over time, but my initial experience was definitely a step down.I believe last time I complained that neither the Pinephone nor Librem had Bandcamp or Spotify apps Ubuntu touch music app or the default music app in varies based on software) is much, much better than that of the Pinephone.To be fair here, the Librem 5 does actually include quite a fancy on a microSD, and occasionally the music app will just die when trying to go to the next song.Overall, Lollypop on the Librem 5 is the clear winner. app itself were what you would hope for.One thing I discovered which changed a lot of my experience with Phosh (Librem 5 / PureOS and any Phosh-based distro for the Pinephone) was that flatpak was so easy to install and set up. While Ubuntu Touch on the Pinephone still has “more apps,” the short list above covers a like it’s closed now, but I’m fairly hopeful the work here will translate to being able to get apps In fact, my Pinephone on Ubuntu Touch can easily last a day and a half (~35+ hours) if it’s my Pinephone’s battery than almost any other Android device I’ve had in a long time. Lomiri in terms of battery life by some wide margin.Thermals are much better on the Pinephone too, but I don’t think they’ve actually improved much think that the design of the Pinephone weighs into this quite a bit.To start, the best browser out of all the options I’ve tried remains Morph Browser on Ubuntu Touch. Twitter or Mastodon on Ubuntu touch for this reason – Morph is just better.In contrast, GNOME Web feels like it’s gotten worse since I used it in December. convinced this isn’t because I’m getting more frustrated with it over time or not, but it definitely I know that it’s the browser that’s the issue, because while most apps I use on my abysmal (15-20 seconds on Mobian on the Pinephone installed on an A1 microSD card). Origin so it’s really a bit of a trade-off in what you might be hoping to do.Well, the Librem 5 still doesn’t have full-disk encryption. a smart card reader in there, and that definitely helped inflate the phone price, so I’m hoping it end experience from a phone user isn’t much different than e.g. PureOS.I am currently thinking that I’m going to abandon Ubuntu Touch for a while on my Pinephone in favour Plus, while I dislike Phosh, the app experience of having Fluffychat available means a lot builds.I don’t think it was the microSD card at the end of the day, because PostmarketOS installed with PostmarketOS compared to others, so I’m not sure.Lastly, I will note that if you want to install to an eMMC instead of the microSD card, now, and my Librem 5 Evergreen for about half a year, I’m seeing significant strides in a lot of able to install / run software all from a single app, and flatpak support on the Librem 5 was because otherwise the app feels as polished as many apps on iOS or Android do. ↩Although, as with any USB-C product, USB-C cables are spotty as all hell :( ↩I had grand plans to install KDE Plasma over PureOS and see if it ran better on my Librem 5, but I had such a bad experience with it on the Pinephone that I’m probably just going to wait until it’s more polished and I am ready to wipe my Librem 5 to install PureOS Byzantium with full-disk