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Re:Librem 5: First Impressions by dahfizz on Tuesday March 22, 2022 @12:21AM (#30762704)
It's not like you're going to run plasma OS on your iPhone, are you? You're running the Linux phone OS on the androids with the big batteries.

The point was that it's reasonable to expect the battery life of plasma OS and friends to be comparable to Android, similar to how Linux on a laptop is comparable to Windows.

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Re:Librem 5: First Impressions by kaba0 on Tuesday March 22, 2022 @04:57AM (#30764013)
I may have misread your comment, but android’s userspace is so completely different from the usual linux one that is should not be compared like that at all. The former underwent thousands of paid engineer hours to improve battery life among others, it is no reason to assume that giving a mostly usual desktop DE a narrower screen will result in anything similar.
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Re:Librem 5: First Impressions by etbe on Tuesday March 22, 2022 @11:00PM (#30774374)
https://puri.sm/posts/my-first-year-of-librem-5-convergence/

The Purism CSO has been running a Librem 5 as his primary desktop PC for over a year.

When Plasma was first released I was probably running hardware slower than a Librem 5.

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