I think I remember you mentioning this on another Pinephone thread!
Totally agree as a Pinephone owner. It's not daily driver yet, but it's slowly getting there. It's also not something that I think will ever scale to "daily driver" for some of these tasks, like Zoom, multitasking, etc. just because the hardware is very much lower end (most models only have 2GB RAM, I heard there's some speed issues on the 3GB RAM model, which I have, as well). Just being realistic, but the older adage of getting a performance gain on older hardware with Linux is really starting to erode due to how much power's needed to run things on the modern web, and all these new electron apps which are browsers in and of themselves. It's not uncommon on my Pinephone to slow to a halt with two tabs in Firefox, or one tab on a very javascript heavy site or app. Some of this can be optimized in software of course, but at a certain point the hardware restrictions will ultimately hold you back.
It's very much going to continue to be a development platform though, and a good target device for OS development since it's sold so cheaply. Hopefully the work done for optimizations on this device will carry over to the Librem 5 and other devices as postmarketOS has been doing.
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I think I remember you mentioning this on another Pinephone thread!
Totally agree as a Pinephone owner. It's not daily driver yet, but it's slowly getting there. It's also not something that I think will ever scale to "daily driver" for some of these tasks, like Zoom, multitasking, etc. just because the hardware is very much lower end (most models only have 2GB RAM, I heard there's some speed issues on the 3GB RAM model, which I have, as well). Just being realistic, but the older adage of getting a performance gain on older hardware with Linux is really starting to erode due to how much power's needed to run things on the modern web, and all these new electron apps which are browsers in and of themselves. It's not uncommon on my Pinephone to slow to a halt with two tabs in Firefox, or one tab on a very javascript heavy site or app. Some of this can be optimized in software of course, but at a certain point the hardware restrictions will ultimately hold you back.
It's very much going to continue to be a development platform though, and a good target device for OS development since it's sold so cheaply. Hopefully the work done for optimizations on this device will carry over to the Librem 5 and other devices as postmarketOS has been doing.