I bought a PinePhone hoping to have some sort of freedom from iOS and at the time the threat of scanning all iCloud uploads.
I played with the PinePhone for a few days, but it really is still a development phone. It has promise but it'll be sitting in a box until the ecosystem matures. I'm really hoping more serious work gets done in making it a daily driver for someone like me, who is very technical but doesn't have the time to figure out why the screen stays dim or how to load in a game that works.
Most people who daily drive their Pinephones use Mobian Phosh, whereas the device comes with Manjaro KDE. You may want to try installing Mobian (and it's really simple).
Not sure if there’s any objective measurement for what most people daily driving the PinePhone use - in my personal count postmarketOS (I do hope they stick to stable ;-)) with Sxmo was quite vocal and not rare, followed by Mobian with Phosh and postmarketOS with Phosh.
I played with the PinePhone for a few days, but it really is still a development phone. It has promise but it'll be sitting in a box until the ecosystem matures. I'm really hoping more serious work gets done in making it a daily driver for someone like me, who is very technical but doesn't have the time to figure out why the screen stays dim or how to load in a game that works.