Re:PinePhone – Beta Edition Linux SmartPhone Preorder
by Mediterraneo10 on Wednesday March 24, 2021 @03:05PM
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The PinePhone is just like an ordinary desktop Linux computer in the sense that there is a terminal right there, and you can run any shell-based apps you want. That means that instead of waiting for NewPipe to be ported, you could just use youtube-dl.
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Re:PinePhone – Beta Edition Linux SmartPhone Preorder
by danShumway on Wednesday March 24, 2021 @03:59PM
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Right, that's part of what's exciting about it.
To develop apps for Android I have to set up an emulator, dev environment, learn a bunch of extra ropes, package everything. But I can throw together some bash scripts in a day, it really opens up the possibilities to solve a lot of my own problems.
Compare that with something like Windows Phone. Not having apps there is a serious problem, because I don't necessarily want to pull out C# and build an entire app to fix every issue I have.