Having a full Linux mobile or tablet device has always interested me, to have an alternative to Android and use Arch Linux everywhere. Realistically I won't be able to give up Android on my phone, but what about tablet's? Phosh was developed to be a graphical user interface for mobile …
  • CalcProgrammer1@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Here’s what that looks like, in portrait mode it works like a tablet. Have to do screen rotation via the toggle in notification area or settings as gyro doesn’t work for rotation.

    • tanja
      2·
      1 year ago

      I never thought of installing a mobile linux distro on that; interesting choice.

      Does it work for gaming/phone things?

      • CalcProgrammer1@lemmy.ml
        2·
        1 year ago

        Not as well as I would’ve liked, I ended up going back to Plasma on it. It works wonderfully for touchscreen computing, such as browsing and using desktop apps without a mouse and keyboard, but gaming doesn’t work well on it mainly due to the lack of VRR support on Phosh/Phoc.