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[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 1 points 2 years ago

Plasma mobile looks way better than phosh IMO. Glad that the mobile environment will resemble the desktop environment. Makes it easier to do cross-platform stuff.

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[–] electricprism@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

Great, this should help attract the mainstream linux user more

[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 years ago

thank christ, it sucks to see projects let perfection be the enemy of good.

a project can be as ideologically pure as it wants, but it's not gonna accomplish much if that handicaps it out of anyone seriously using it.

[–] zolax@programming.dev 1 points 2 years ago

to clarify:

The developers of the Alpine Linux-based postmarketOS mobile distribution today that they’re now supporting the systemd init system alongside OpenRC and other alternative init systems.

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postmarketOS currently supports the Sxmo, Phosh, GNOME Shell on Mobile, and KDE Plasma Mobile UIs. While the Sxmo images will stay with OpenRC, the GNOME and KDE Plasma Mobile images will be built on top of systemd

[–] CatTrickery@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

PostmarketOS has had really strange priorities lately. I'm not a fan of the whole ethos of Ubuntu mobile (including their use of SystemD) but at least they have stuck to actually getting every feature working on some devices with reasonable specs. My computer uses KDE and OpenRC and has far fewer issues than it did on SystemD. This feels like a waste of resources to reinvent the wheel.

[–] ad_on_is@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

The project is in an too early phase to debate over SystemD. Can you guys please hold back with these arguments until pmOS reaches at least 4% market share.