[Arnavion]

The latter. You can look up videos of "phosh" to see what it looks like.

If you want a mini-laptop OS because you always run it docked or something, you're of course free to use a desktop-first shell that provides that. Though the phone-first shells also support that already ("convergence").

[zozbot234]

The videos of 'phosh' one can see online are not that encouraging - the experience seems very sluggish and quite far from "daily driver" quality.

[fsflover]

It depends on how old those videos are: https://puri.sm/posts/librem-5-getting-faster-with-age/.