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by bfuclusion 2014 days ago
I have a Pinephone, and I can tell I've been really conditioned by Androids flow. Haven't quite figured out the UI yet, but I'm going to put KDE on it and see if my desktop muscle memory helps things. The hardware is a bit slow, but man is it fun to have Linux in my pocket:)
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I'm hoping you can develop your own "ROM" for it, I wouldn't mind making everything like blocks to reduce GUI load if that's a thing. Like the Windows Phone UI, just my opinion. It's also on my wish list to do i3-wm on it so can get some ram back in desktop mode.
Yes, you can do it. Have a look at a minimalistic UI called SXMo: https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=9913.
omg that's literally it haha, at least the i3wm part wow. It's funny too seeing it you're like hmmm but if you had a simple button toggle to use it as a phone or dock... man that's great.

Thanks for that link, was watching this video demo of it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfWKYZDtm1k

I do hope for all that effort you gain back something similar with the Ubuntu GUI and i3-wm(like 300mb of ram back)