Wow, thanks for this review, it looks awesome! It's like a tiling window manager with a decent menu system. I kinda love that little box to type your text into, it looks like a quick easy way to send a message.
This is getting close to a perfect phone for me. What I would love to see though is a physical keyboard, like blackberries had, and just an absolute barebones, command line only OS, because when you have that, specs really dont matter all that much (for the OS, that is. Obviously apps themselves can be a bit more hungry). You could even assign commonly used apps to preset buttons on the bottom of the phone, so you can quickly open or switch apps whilst driving for example. Obviously my dream phone is a bit niche, so Im not expecting it anytime soon, but a man can dream
current apple user looking into linux- this is really really neat. i honestly think this looks simple to learn! i'm not a geek or anything and i think i could pick this up with a couple days of using it regularly. now would i know what to do with a terminal? no but it's good that it's there!😂 and i'm sure with some research i could find ways to use it like my current smartphone...an open source alternative to google drive, google maps, all these awful apps that steal your information...
Google drive, etc is SAAS (software as a service) so finding an open source alternative doesn't make any sense. As far as I know Google can be running open source on their servers but that's irrelevant because you can't just go to their server houses and check it with your own two eyes. The only way to be safe is to either self-host or avoid the technology altogether, anything other than that is just a leap of faith...
The terminal just opens files that do things to other files. Meaning you can type the file path of an application and it will run. Everything runs this way, including copy, move, delete, and new folder. Some of the command names are a bit odd.
Woah, this is super cool! A friend gave me his PinePhone. I am now looking for a light weight OS and UI that doesn’t copy Android or iOS, but feels more UNIXy. I’m an Emacs user, so used to memorizing weird key combos. Still waiting for EmacsOS. 😂
the first thing you should do with sxmo is edit the .config/sxmo/xinit FIRST change the editor to a more sane editor like emacs, and the lock to turn the screen off or suspend.
You have not demonstrated different applications in different workspaces in full screen mode. And he did not show switching between workspaces with gestures, and this is how the user will often use the phone. Switching workspaces is essentially switching applications. Swipe left or right and you have another app already running, isn't that awesome? I really didn't understand how to transfer a running application from the first workspace to, say, 2 or 3.
Everything linux - nothing makes sense at all. Every linux user - "it's fine once you get used to it.." (and as I typed this he said 'it takes some getting used to' .. lol)
It does make sense but it might be confusing for people not familiar with operating systems based on the concepts of extensibility and interoperability of smaller applications.
This is a desktop environment for "power users" that are not comfortable with what the majority of the mobile industry imagine as intuitive design. It's the same with many software like VIM - that is extremely confusing for most people but for the ones that are actually using it it's a heavenly user experience. If you want something that makes sense to you - use Phosh or KDE Plasma.
It's a slightly different paradigm. Windows treats the computer like a desk, while Linux treats it like a file cabinet. Whenever you type a command, you open a file. These files could be binaries which do things to your view of the files or the files themselves. cp copies, mv moves, rm removes, cd moves your view into a new folder, everything else opens other files or just runs by itself, and commands can be scripted. Pipe (|) puts the output of the command to its left as the target of the command to its right. Different distributions come with different files on the system by default.
Wow, thanks for this review, it looks awesome! It's like a tiling window manager with a decent menu system. I kinda love that little box to type your text into, it looks like a quick easy way to send a message.
Ok, watching it once again :)
Hehe, I realized I missed a few things I'd wanted to cover in the previous video, so I shot a new one.
this is so sick :O thx for the good vidéo :D
I’m loving Postmarket Posh. This demo makes me want to Pine Jump to SXMO
This is getting close to a perfect phone for me. What I would love to see though is a physical keyboard, like blackberries had, and just an absolute barebones, command line only OS, because when you have that, specs really dont matter all that much (for the OS, that is. Obviously apps themselves can be a bit more hungry). You could even assign commonly used apps to preset buttons on the bottom of the phone, so you can quickly open or switch apps whilst driving for example.
Obviously my dream phone is a bit niche, so Im not expecting it anytime soon, but a man can dream
Add a voice-recognition daemon called by a button and it looks great!
They're working on the phone keyboard attachment from what I hear.
The pinephone has pins on the back designed to support accessories and I believe there has been talk of developing a hardware keyboard for it.
@@tiberiusmagnificuscaeser4929 They're already showing prototypes
This is actually quite brilliant.
Thanks for the video. I loaded it to the sd card so I can get acclimated in spare time. Running PostMarketOS on the eemc as my daily.
For some reason this reminds me of i3wm on a desktop environment.
It is using dwm which is somewhat similar to i3.
@@Newbyte I knew it! Thank you!
Thank you for this video
current apple user looking into linux- this is really really neat. i honestly think this looks simple to learn! i'm not a geek or anything and i think i could pick this up with a couple days of using it regularly. now would i know what to do with a terminal? no but it's good that it's there!😂 and i'm sure with some research i could find ways to use it like my current smartphone...an open source alternative to google drive, google maps, all these awful apps that steal your information...
Google drive, etc is SAAS (software as a service) so finding an open source alternative doesn't make any sense. As far as I know Google can be running open source on their servers but that's irrelevant because you can't just go to their server houses and check it with your own two eyes. The only way to be safe is to either self-host or avoid the technology altogether, anything other than that is just a leap of faith...
The terminal just opens files that do things to other files. Meaning you can type the file path of an application and it will run. Everything runs this way, including copy, move, delete, and new folder. Some of the command names are a bit odd.
I like this
Woah, this is super cool! A friend gave me his PinePhone. I am now looking for a light weight OS and UI that doesn’t copy Android or iOS, but feels more UNIXy. I’m an Emacs user, so used to memorizing weird key combos. Still waiting for EmacsOS. 😂
You could write a mobile-oriented config for EXWM
😁 So far I’m happy with SXMO, took it out a few times. It works fine, except the battery on the PinePhone lasts only a few hours.
Bet
the first thing you should do with sxmo is edit the .config/sxmo/xinit FIRST change the editor to a more sane editor like emacs, and the lock to turn the screen off or suspend.
Or neovim
does it save or display sms conversations at all or do you just have to remember what you sent?
looks like its 'vanilla' dwm with gestures added.
What's the battery life?
X doesnt have multi touch support iirc
Guys, have you seen Nokia N9 ?
You have not demonstrated different applications in different workspaces in full screen mode. And he did not show switching between workspaces with gestures, and this is how the user will often use the phone. Switching workspaces is essentially switching applications. Swipe left or right and you have another app already running, isn't that awesome?
I really didn't understand how to transfer a running application from the first workspace to, say, 2 or 3.
Everything linux - nothing makes sense at all. Every linux user - "it's fine once you get used to it.." (and as I typed this he said 'it takes some getting used to' .. lol)
It does make sense but it might be confusing for people not familiar with operating systems based on the concepts of extensibility and interoperability of smaller applications.
This is a desktop environment for "power users" that are not comfortable with what the majority of the mobile industry imagine as intuitive design. It's the same with many software like VIM - that is extremely confusing for most people but for the ones that are actually using it it's a heavenly user experience. If you want something that makes sense to you - use Phosh or KDE Plasma.
Counterpoint, it all makes sense (edit. you just have to read the documentation)
@@notimportant7682 Most of the time everything is conveniently labeled, and everything else like default keybindings is usually in the readme.
It's a slightly different paradigm. Windows treats the computer like a desk, while Linux treats it like a file cabinet. Whenever you type a command, you open a file. These files could be binaries which do things to your view of the files or the files themselves. cp copies, mv moves, rm removes, cd moves your view into a new folder, everything else opens other files or just runs by itself, and commands can be scripted. Pipe (|) puts the output of the command to its left as the target of the command to its right.
Different distributions come with different files on the system by default.