Last Updated on July 7, 2024 by pg@petergamma.org
- Amost everything the Pinephone can do can also be built from Rasberry Pi components.
- Devices built from Raspberry Pi components will eventually be a bit bigger.
- But what is the alternative?
- Peter Gamma can imagine to carry around a device which is based on the Raspberry Pi 4 as his daily driver.
- It is currently available to a reasonable price.
- And it has a big chance that we get it to work.
- It has been evalutated for many years.
- Leepspvidoe KDE plasma built 4 which is based on Raspberry Pi OS is almost as comfortable to use as Ubuntu 16.04.
- And leepspvideo has tested the Raspberry Pi 4 in countless tests on his YouTube channel.
- A big advantage of Rasperry Pi is the Rasbperry Pi OS which has been debugged since around 10 years:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raspberry_Pi_OS
This is big, big adavantage over the Pinephone which as many distros with many issues.