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I second this, I use it with a Dell docking station at work (90% sure it’s the same model) and updates for firmware just work on Kubuntu.

As much as I like the idea behind Pine64, make sure you understand what you’re doing - their devices usually need some time before they’re useful, they might underperform, etc.
On the other hand, they’re usually priced well for what they offer, and I think the ARM model of new PineTab might look better than their usual new offerings. Make sure to find out, how polished it is before you buy.

It’s the moderation staff’s responsibility. Sorry for nitpicking, I understand in this case it’s likely the same people.

I just get triggered when I hear that an open source software developer should have any responsibilities at all (maybe apart from some extreme examples), and I wouldn’t like this idea to stick in anyone’s head.

It would be a nice feature, if Phosh behaved a bit different in landscape mode; it wastes too much vertical space, especially using Firefox to browse the web is a disaster. Maybe the top and bottom panel should share screen space at the top instead (each half of the screen); or they should be on the sides instead…

From what I understand, the RISC-V ecosystem is not polished enough yet, so the state of PineTab-V roughly represents the state of the entire platform for desktop Linux.

The entire idea of Ubuntu Touch device support, was to be based on Halium. It’s a bit different than regular mobile Linux (outside of Droidian, of course), where mainline is a requirement.

It won’t be much of help, but I have a few devices:

• Xperia X which so far works well, except that it feels like the phone’s internals are a bit too slow for today’s standards, so even if I will use it for the time being, if I were yo,u I would pick something more powerful.
• OnePlus 6 which would be very cool (especially that it’s one of the best phones for regular ‘mobile Linux’ so far), if not for shutdown being bugged, which results in time getting reset on every boot. But it’s fast enough, and I hope the bug will eventually get a fix.
• last time I tried PPP was not good enough, but it’s been ~2 months ago and support was quite fresh. Might need to check again.

I’m as skeptical as you are, but at least they automatically preinstall a few useful gaming apps by default, ie. LatencyFlex.

Mobile Linux distributions for smartphones might offer some hints on how to tackle your problems - these apps are created in a convergent way, which makes them work well on laptops, tablets and PCs alike. Look for an alternate file manager, for example, to replace Nautilus. Check out https://linuxphoneapps.org/apps/