Pinephone review: Manjaro
Post n°71 pubblicato il 27 Marzo 2023 da taichung
I installed Manjaro with Phosh on a microSD. The version is the beta 30. Previously I tested the images I found inside the multidistro image (older), focusing on the Plasma version. That's why today I choose Phosh for my review. The installation was easy; I went through the initial setup to configure language, wifi etc without any problem. Note that Manjaro doesn't offer to encrypt the phone during the setup.
Calls in & out OK, I didn't test SMS. Installing and removing sw from the app works smoothly. I installed VLC and... also the UPNP service in my LAN works!! As usual some tweaks are needed for some app to avoid them spanning outside the screen. The (Gnome) Calendar app went under some improvements in the last months. Now we should be able to add our custum online calendar URL (not only those of the well known big peepers). Unfortunately, just after typing "https://", the app crashes Among the online accounts, you can also add your imap/smtp account and Kerberos. No xmpp The camera works too; I took some pics inside with the front camera, but the image looks greenish (maybe just need to manually set the ISO). The resolution looks good, from the small screen of the phone. There is a nice antispam (for calls) app, but I didn't test it. Also has a Battery app, with infos about charge, voltage, etc. Basically the number of preinstalled apps on Manjaro is higher than PostmarketOS, for example, and apart from the most common, there are others like the Sound recorder or system informations which seldom are selected for a basic Pinephone image. The language support reflects more or less the one of PostmarketOS - Phosh, since they share the same interface. Same problems. Respect to some months ago, when I tested for a while the Plasma version of Manjaro, I'm quite satisfied with this beta 30 with Phosh. It looks robust, until now I didn't experiment any freeze or crash, neither by rotating the screen neither, by resuming from suspend (the first one was an issue for me before, with Plasma). Responsiveness is among the best for Pinephone's distros
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il 09/01/2025 alle 18:08
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il 23/08/2019 alle 12:59