> Phone: Pinephone

Talking as a Pinephone (and iPhone 12) owner, I think the software is starting to show promise, but the SoC is nowhere beefy enough.

If I’ll go this route fully and make a Linux-phone my daily driver, I’d seriously consider the Purism Librem 5 instead.

I'm on the other side of this; I don't use my phone for anything more than messaging, light browsing/videos, and social feeds, so what I really want is more battery life.

Last I checked, both purism and pine64 are struggling with this.

The Pinephone keyboard mod adds a 6000 mAh battery, which should be enough I guess.

It's nowhere beafy enough for Gnome. It runs fluxbox, FVWM, and apparently i3 and dwm just fine.

Linux needs a decent productivity suite of apps (preview, mail, calendar etc) the current offering is terrible

Replacements, all decent or better:

- Preview: GNOME Document Viewer (now supports PDF form filling), Master PDF Editor (paid and proprietary), built-in PDF editor in Firefox/Chromium, Okular; GNOME Image Viewer, Gwenview, Pantheon Photos (part of elementary OS)

- Mail: Thunderbird, Evolution, Kontact (KMail component), Geary, Pantheon Mail, Claws Mail, Mailspring

- Calendar: Thunderbird (built-in calendar), GNOME Calendar, Evolution, Kontact (KOrganizer component), Pantheon Calendar

A couple of weeks ago I needed to do some very simple PDF "editing": I had 2 PDFs (A and B) and I needed to get some pages 2 (of 5) from PDF-A and 2 (of 5) pages of PDF-B into a single PDF. I tried to do that on Linux Mint and it was a nightmare: Download PDFSam, create PDF from PDF-A with 2 pages, create PDF from PDF-B with 2 pages and then merge those 2 PDFs.

The way I achieve that in my Mac is by opening both file in preview, select and drag the pages I want from PDF-A to PDF-B and then select and delete the pages I don't want from PDF-B.

Why do these simple things have to be so cumbersome in Linux in 2021?

They don't have to be! Either PDF Arranger or PDF Slicer would rearrange and move pages between PDF files much more easily than PDFsam can. Take your pick:

https://github.com/pdfarranger/pdfarranger

https://github.com/junrrein/pdfslicer

I’ve sincerely tried every mail and calendar client and they all fall short