# Plasma Mobile

Hacker Approved page: https://hackerapproved.com/p/plasma-mobile/

14 people recommended Plasma Mobile in Hacker News comments, 1 had mixed feelings and 3 criticized it, November 2025 to October 2026. It was recommended in 7 of 12 months, in 13 threads. It meets the Hacker Approved badge rule.

**Verdict:** Praised as an improving mobile shell that is usable day to day and handles screen orientation well; critics say hardware support is poor.

Summary written by Claude from 22 comments.

## Why people recommend it

- Steady progress, usable for daily use (4 comments in the sample): "They're _very_ close to releasing something for daily use and the whole KDE stack on mobile has come a long way." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47318787)) "It's not perfect but it's quite usable I think." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47462568)) "it made insane progress over the last years" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46565301))
- Praised as great and promising (3 comments in the sample): "Plasma mobile has been really great for me" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49745029)) "The future is Plasma Mobile." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49760495)) "Plasma is great in mobile" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49338806))
- Suits tablets and docked desktop use (2 comments in the sample): "Both Phosh and PlasmaMobile turn into a "proper" desktop when "docked" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47368762)) "quite a cool alternate DE that is more suited to tablets" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49745990))

## What people warn about

- Diverts effort from desktop Plasma (2 comments in the sample): "It would have just been better to continue doing the desktop specific things and let the Plasma Mobile enthusiasts make those changes." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47729610)) "Plasma Mobile has ate more time that could have went into making Plasma a better desktop" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47727161))

## What people recommend instead

- [Phosh](https://hackerapproved.com/p/phosh/): 11 recommend, 3 mixed, 7 criticize

## The badge

A product earns the Hacker Approved badge when at least 10 people recommend it, recommenders outnumber critics at least 2 to 1 (mixed feelings count toward neither side), it was recommended in at least 4 of the 12 months and in at least 5 different threads, and no single thread supplies more than half of the people who recommend it. Health and money products are never badged.

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Plasma Mobile", https://hackerapproved.com/p/plasma-mobile/ (14 recommend, 1 mixed, 3 criticize; Hacker News comments, November 2025 to October 2026).

Counts updated 2 Nov 2026, with data through October 31, 2026.