I feel it’s been a week since I loaded postmarketOS on my uConsole. Sadly, I have to write it off as a disappointing experience.
Sure; I got calls, texts, and cellular data to work with it. But for some reason (and I can’t believe I’m saying this, but), the Wi-Fi reception is worse, and so is the general performance. I can barely get a smooth Discord experience. (And now you guys know why I chose to purchase a CM4 with 8GB RAM.) The OS chokes when I plug in a second screen in 4K. None of the downsides I mentioned are that much of a big deal when I hopped to Arch Linux ARM. In exchange, I have to put a little extra elbow grease to replicate the functions that worked with postmarketOS (i.e. calls and texts).
I do have hope, however, that these cons I listed can be addressed down the line. And I have much more faith in community-supported distros like this one, than the distros officially supplied by Clockwork. Nevertheless, therein lies the best feature of running a core without built-in storage. I can distro hop.
So, for now, I’m going to main my Arch Linux install. But I want to see what I can do to one day make my pmOS install run better. And my two bets are on the Wi-Fi firmware and the GPU driver.