Are there Linux phones & SBCs with positive qualities which do not have any issues?

Last Updated on May 17, 2023 by pg@petergamma.org

We do not know of Linux phones and SBCs which do not have any issues. But there are Linux phones and SBCs with positive qualities, as for instance:

The PinePhone

  • most of the features Pinephone developer Martijn Braam shows seem to work
  • for most issues we had with the Pinephone we had support in the Pine64 forum

The main issues for us personally are

  • high shipping costs and import taxes to Switzerland
  • the Pinephone was criticized for it’s poor battery life and it’s poor software support
  • Keep in mind, it took us about three weeks to install LibreOffice on the PinePhone, working everyday a litte bit on it, although we had good support from the Pine64 forum:

https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=16614

  • How is it with the next application we want to install on the Pinephone?

Rasperry Pi

  • a positive quality is the community Raspberry Pi’s have
  • there are tons of insructions for Raspberry Pi’s
  • It has 10 years of software developement behind it.

The main issues for us personally

  • hardly available
  • no Raspberry Pi 5 since several years
  • We cannot follow the procedure how Raspberry Pi Inc. deals with customers who use the device for private use.