Tux Machines

Review: Playing (music) with the PinePhone

Posted by Rianne Schestowitz on Feb 13, 2023

Having spent an evening hunting for software, experimenting, reading documentation, troubleshooting, reading log files, and trying various client applications I came to a few conclusions, most of which won't surprise anyone.

One of the more obvious is that "Top 10" lists of applications are usually useless. They typically don't provide a list of features or drawbacks, they never provide dependency information, most of them don't mention a license, whether the software is still maintained, or (in some cases) even include a link to the software's website. Most of them feel like copy and pasted blurbs from a Wikipedia list.

Docker can be a useful piece of technology if a person is using the latest version, has lots of free space on their root partition, isn't using a long-term support distribution, and has up to date documentation with which to work. When any one of these stops being true, Docker suddenly becomes a lot less useful. Unfortunately, as far as I can tell, there isn't any clearly presented information to tell the user which version of Docker a container requires or how much space it will use once installed.

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