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by mastazi 1403 days ago
They ship devices with a completely broken OS[1], I could never recommend their products to anyone, except maybe someone who is a technical type and comfortable going through the process of installing another distro + happy to spend time doing that.

[1] At least as of a couple of months ago. I'm talking basic functionality being broken, like for example trying to add an icon to the home screen and the phone crashes. I encountered multiple bugs in just the first few minutes of usage.
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seba_dos1 1402 days ago
To be fair, I had a very similar experience on my very first minutes with an iPhone on one of the .0 iOS releases. So many glitches and broken things, even on the onboarding process, many of them reliably reproducible. That said, when I grabbed that iPhone the next time and updated it a few minor releases further, most of them were fixed.
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mastazi 1401 days ago
the difference is that there were perfectly good distros for the PinePhone, but then it was decided to start shipping it with a half-baked one. It's as if Apple went back from those later iOS releases to the earlier one.

The original "Why I left Pine64" article adds more info about what went on.

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