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Is there any way to squeeze a bit more performance from current applications on PinePhone, or do we have to wait for better hardware?

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Supposedly a lot of the performance issues are down to GTK3 not really making much use of GPU acceleration and apps getting ported to GTK4 should improve things.

Plasma mobile does seem to run a bit better than GNOME/Phosh: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qz_hRfkBnic

GTK4 may eventually improve things - while I am happily adding more and more GTK4 apps to https://linmobapps.frama.io, they don't profit from GPU acceleration due to the Mali 400 graphics in the PinePhone only supporting OpenGL(ES) 2.

Well I don't think waiting for better hardware take any less time than improving the software that these phones run. In the video, you can see that these phones are still running desktop versions of these applications, so there is a lot of room for improvement and optimizations for these mobile Linux platforms (things like Firefox running at the right size, better GTK and touchscreen support, etc.).

One of the cool things about these phones is that the battery is removable, so I would imagine these phones will last a while and only get better over time, as their operating systems mature.

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