Pinephone will ship with Manjaro next

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A post was split to a new topic: Curious about software compatibility on the ARM platform

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Has there been any word on when a system image for the Pinephone with Lomiri shell will be added to the main download mirror?

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Well, when I checked the size of our Phosh image it was 1,07 GB. You can check my upload and the one Bernhard did.

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We are still working with UBPorts on that release. Most of the port is done. We only have to stabilize #Lomiri on our end.

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Thanks for the update philm! Thatā€™s good news!

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Yes thanks phil :slight_smile:

I have some questions regarding Lomiri, donā€™t know whether this is the proper place for it, or if it is deserves itā€™s own thread, but here goes: how exactly will Lomori work in the Manjaro release? Will it have Arch running underneath? Will it come with the ā€˜usualā€™ Arch + Manjaro package repositories that we known and love? :wink: Thanks for any answer/clarification.

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I canā€™t get it right now, but it definitely looks promising! I just have a few questions ā€“

Howā€™s the experience with Facebook, Instagram, etc? The matter of the fact is some people donā€™t care/know about options for their privacy, so I have to hang on with them :wink:

Is the experience actually at a solid user experience right now? Whatā€™s it like when packages donā€™t exist? I think building stuff mitigates that, but Iā€™m not positive :man_shrugging:

Thatā€™s all. Hope this is really is as good as it seems :crossed_fingers:

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So, I know the real thing is coming soon, but I wanted to go ahead and say, Lomiri on Manjaro is good stuff. It is obviously still getting work, but it runs smoothly (the things that run). I feel like it is the smoothest DE for the PP so far, but I havenā€™t played in plasma for a while.

Donā€™t know if you all want a list of things still broken or not (to help with work), but Iā€™d happily oblige. Obviously in a different forum postā€¦

However, this is just as good as I had hoped it would be, now just to see what kinda issues there will be with putting apps on itā€¦

Thanks again for the hard work, let me know if youā€™re looking for testers! Canā€™t wait for the CE version from you all!

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I found the resources below helpful.

List of tested carriers
https://wiki.pine64.org/index.php/PinePhone_APN_Settings

PINE64 ā€ŗ PinePhone ā€ŗ PinePhone Software ā€ŗ Manjaro on PinePhone
https://forum.pine64.org/forumdisplay.php?fid=130

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Well, i wish my next phone will be PinePhone. I currently have OnePlus 6 with custom kernel.

Iā€™m on the same boat. What OS do you run on your OnePlus 6 as a daily driver currently?
Iā€™ve long relied on LineageOS and tried UTouch recently but it is not usable yet on OP6.

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As I understand it, this smartphone is not for the average user or to be use as a main unit. Isnā€™t it ?

When can we expect a smartphone like this usable by everyone ? (one year or more ?)

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I am not really interested in the average user or everyone. Iā€™ve been on the edge for picking up a PinePhone because I think it might be (almost!) usable as a daily device for me. I am anxiously watching my wallet if it can handle a Manjaro PinePhone, because the Manjaro branding is just enough to tip the scales for me. (Pray for my wallet, itā€™s still recovering from two new mechanical keyboardsā€¦)

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Iā€™m very interested by this smartphone but I read on the net that it is not ready yet to replace a smartphone sell on the market. Thatā€™s why I posted here. I want to replace my old mobile phone by a smartphone, but only by a Linux smartphone and not by an android smartphone.

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@ AlanP
May be in some weeks, but till now it is not ready to replace a smartphone.
In combination with crust, telefon funktion is not very stable yet.
To go for sure, just wait a little bit.

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No problem, Iā€™m waiting. :wink:

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Itā€™s so cool! Been waiting so long to get a pinephone, just found the money for it at the same time that the Manjaro edition is comming.

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Working with a GiffGaff sim in the UK. On the P64 CE postOS 3GB phone. The alpha4-with-phosh-pinephone OS.

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Cool. So thatā€™s one sim supplier that works for the phone in the uk. Iā€™ll try EE when I have saved enough pennies to buy a pinephone cool. So thatā€™s one sim supplier that works for the phone in the uk. Iā€™ll try EE when I have saved enough pennies to buy a pinephone :slight_smile:

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We pushed out some new images: Lomiri, Phosh, Plamo. Use the dedicated bug-trackers to post your findings, thx.

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Giffgaff works which means all the network over O2 will work.
I have tested with giffgaff