Retrospective from 3 days of maining
I am absolutely relieved that I no longer have to put up with this device. Just in case there is any doubt, mainline Linux smartphones are not suitable for maining. I knew this going in, I don't need to be told how naive I am for trying.
Percentages
These percentages roughly correlate with the level of reliability I experienced whilst juggling an on-call shift with a mainline Linux smartphone:
- 60% of the time my phone had charge.
- 100% of the time after the first day, I carried a 15000 mAh battery around to keep it juiced.
- 95% of the time my charged phone could be unlocked without a restart.
- Some of the time it was flat.
- On the default Manjaro installation, some of the time it showed some
loginctl
error message before crashing to a login screen I couldn't navigate without a mouse/keyboard. Hmm.
- 100% of the time I could send/receive SMS.
- This is the biggest surprise to me: the radio actually worked reliably and we have competent drivers for it.
- 90% of the time an outbound call worked properly.
- 100% of the time it could connect.
- Audio frequently didn't work in at least one direction.
- 0% of the time I could hear an incoming call. This made working with PagerDuty really fun.