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From: Christopher Lemmer Webber <cwebber@dustycloud.org>
To: Joshua Branson <jbranso@dismail.de>
Cc: help-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Anyone running Guix on the pinephone?
Date: Sun, 02 May 2021 23:17:08 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r1io1p6z.fsf@dustycloud.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87v9815bze.fsf@dismail.de>

Joshua Branson writes:

> Christopher Lemmer Webber <cwebber@dustycloud.org> writes:
>
>> I see the cookbook now mentions the possibility of running Guix on a
>> pinephone... is anyone actually doing it?  Mind posting your experiences
>> and setup?
>>
>> (Doesn't have to be as a phone necessarily... I'm more interested in
>> using it as a lightweight portable computer.  But a phone would be nice
>> too.)
>
> Is a pine phone good enough for a portable and personal computer?
> Doesn't it only have 2GB?  I was starting to run into RAM issues with
> 4GB when I was using Gnome.  Now I have 8GB and I am running sway.  No
> RAM issues anymore.
>
> Just out of curiosity, how would you deal with RAM issues/slow CPU
> issues on a pinephone?  Using a lightweight window manager and only run
> Emacs?  :)

Sure, why not? ;)

It wasn't actually too long ago that my main computer only had 2GB of
ram...


  reply	other threads:[~2021-05-03  3:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-05-02  2:01 Anyone running Guix on the pinephone? Christopher Lemmer Webber
2021-05-02 16:36 ` Joshua Branson
2021-05-03  3:17   ` Christopher Lemmer Webber [this message]
2021-05-03  3:42     ` Vagrant Cascadian
2021-05-05 15:22   ` raingloom
2021-05-03 13:11 ` Efraim Flashner

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