Re: Anyone running Guix on the pinephone?

[Christopher Lemmer Webber]

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...