Last Updated on April 23, 2023 by pg@petergamma.org
- We installed Abiword and Gnumeric on our PinePhone. These two apps are currently the two most interesting apps which we installed on our PinePhone. We don’t, use our PinePhone, to use it satisfyingly, would require to import the PinePhone dock from the US which is expensive for Swiss who live cost effective. After all the issues we experienced with the Pinephone and reported in our journal, we do not use our PinePhone because of that reason. But we will not sell it, until we found a device which fits for our needs.
- What is great about Abiword and Gnumeric that we found versions for a Windows 10 PC. You can find the downloads in the web, and eventually in our journal. We installed both apps on our Windows 10 PC. Both apps are quiet simple, they remind us to how Microsoft Word and Excel looked 20 years ago. Both Windows 10 apps are dated from about 10 years ago, they probably aren’t special Windows 10 apps, but they run on Windows 10.
- Abiword and Gnumeric has been discontined to be developed for Windows, as far as we know. But we can also find Linux versions of these apps.
- But what is great about this, we can use Abiword and Gnumeric on our PinePhone or on our SBC, write the files to the SD card, stick it into our Windows 10 PC and continue to work with the same applications we used on the PinePhone.
We had this comfort before with Softmaker Office for PC and Android, until Google killed the option to write to the external SD card, and since then we suffer not to have this option anymore. Abiword and Gnumeric offer a great solution to solve this problem for Linux phones and SBC computers with small screens.
- With this storage card solution, we do not need and usb-c dock for the PinePhone, we can do without. But the battery life of the PinePhone is limited, import of the PinePhone to Switzerland is expensive. SBCs are cheaper, and if we build our SBC together by ourself, we eventually will also find a solution for our battery life problem, since there is a lot of information about this topic available for SBCs..
If we are able to solve these problem, we have a solution for mobile Linux computing which is overall cheaper than the PinePhone and has a longer battery life.