Are you fed to use Emacs & the Stowaway keyboard on your Pinephone? – use a Raspberry Pi 4 & Leepspvideo KDE Plasma built 4 & or a zero 2 w & DietPi

Last Updated on July 7, 2024 by pg@petergamma.org

  • Leepspvideo KDE Plasma built 4 is almost as comfortable to use as Ubuntu 24.04.
  • It runs on the Raspberry Pi 4 which is available.
  • In contrast to a community for the Pinephone who works for instance on the development of office applications.
  • Also the Pinephone keyboard is unavailable.
  • But the Raspberry Pi 4 is power hungry.
  • If this is a problem for you, choose a Raspberry Pi zero 2 w with Raspberry Pi OS:
  • The Raspberry Zero 2 W reaches maximum Performance mit DietPi:

For those wo do not speak German translate the following written transcript with Google Translate:

  • U-Labs from Germany compared Raspberry PiOS to DietPi
  • He says DietPi is better than Raspberry Pi OS
  • at least for the zero 2 w
  • DietPi is based on Raspberry Pi OS

You can add only the components you need to save RAM with the zero 2 w.

  • Most of the components of the Pinephone can also be built from the Pi 4 or the zero 2 w.
  • If we start with Leepspvideo KDE plasma built 4 and a Pi 4 we have a device which is easy to use.
  • We have a big device which is power hungry but cannot compete with the Pinephone.
  • But with that the Raspberry Pi is easy to start with.
  • And we can than later on move on to the Raspberry Pi zero 2 w.
  • With DietPy we can get the max out of the zero 2 w.

For us personally the Raspberry Pi platform has become more interesting than the Pinephone. It offers much more soft- and hardware options.