I got a PinePhone back around 2020. My initial reaction was that the interface lagged too much. Entering text, with the on-screen keyboard, was too slow and navigating had signifigant delays. I put it away and haven't picked it up again until today.

I downloaded the latest postmarketOS with the Phosh interface — as similar to what would ship with the Librem 5 — restored the image on an microSD card, took the back cover off, removed the battery, inserted it above the SIM card slot. I then disabled the modem using the tip of a pen to switch it off using the dip switch. Inserted the battery, put back the cover, turned the phone on and proceeded to install postmarketOS.

After the installation, the first thing I noticed was that entering text was much more responsive than before. Great, progress has been made towards improving the performance. It's not even the PinePhone Pro version! After connecting it to WiFi — with a few user interface oddities — and adjusting a few settings, I proceeded.

What Nostr client with a GUI will run well on postmarketOS?

Firefox was installed, so I tried a web based client first. Navigated to the extensions to install either Nos2x or Alby, however both are not available. The interface warned about compatibility with Andriod (since it's aarch64) and the extensions were not compatible.

To be continued.

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