diff --git a/main/postmarketos-ui-plasma-mobile/APKBUILD b/main/postmarketos-ui-plasma-mobile/APKBUILD
index 776f72f61..c36d80c39 100644
--- a/main/postmarketos-ui-plasma-mobile/APKBUILD
+++ b/main/postmarketos-ui-plasma-mobile/APKBUILD
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 pkgname=postmarketos-ui-plasma-mobile
 pkgver=1
-pkgrel=19
-pkgdesc="(Wayland) Mobile variant of KDE Plasma, optimized for touchscreen (aarch64, x86_64 or hardware acceleration required!)"
+pkgrel=20
+pkgdesc="(Wayland) Mobile variant of KDE Plasma, optimized for touchscreen (slow without hardware acceleration!)"
 url="https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Plasma_Mobile"
 arch="noarch"
 license="GPL3+"
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ package() {
 	install -D -m644 "$srcdir"/org.kde.phone.homescreen.js \
 		"$pkgdir"/usr/share/plasma/look-and-feel/org.kde.plasma.phone/contents/plasmoidsetupscripts/org.kde.phone.homescreen.js
 }
-sha512sums="fc3b0d988b5de786557cdbaa4cf5fa2fb59df09e2e671d73782941c0d8eb31f4a36df2683ce4cfab269298d3c7eb7a806a0fd0528b1662c1aa661df3c99ea852  start_plasma.sh
+sha512sums="ccc27798d579470f5323f5b60cb43326348571b0012bf3d8bfbe86830d08837b3290d831c319228599ec4352592c3ffcb0d6d359deb1b186592678f3d0619c3a  start_plasma.sh
 a95d3bbd1e8051c9b394ad7a26e4beb2d1be8d3c38189819da61fd42b1c7fd3948c4737bc9246eee23eaf5fd9451cd6362fb06442f3d8f967f930d3bcc5cfbe9  kwinrc
 8eb0a095cd6e8cf693af212d57c0b99c74f39636d8f4f391561197ec662a7ca4dd5648aa74bb8ac5f088d8baf2bde976567c333f98db708e19f6ed7839d6b6fe  kdeglobals
 341f0b866c315f37868ef3e7137cce8b53a0e8e6164e5af71b3e8e2fa68321afbf0652d76124ef84bade1393f701748852ac939aef9daff7e272a0df827780eb  qtlogging.ini
diff --git a/main/postmarketos-ui-plasma-mobile/start_plasma.sh b/main/postmarketos-ui-plasma-mobile/start_plasma.sh
index e4fb760c3..e7acae955 100644
--- a/main/postmarketos-ui-plasma-mobile/start_plasma.sh
+++ b/main/postmarketos-ui-plasma-mobile/start_plasma.sh
@@ -25,7 +25,13 @@ if test -z "${XDG_RUNTIME_DIR}"; then
 		if [ -d "/dev/dri" ]; then
 			ck-launch-session kwin_wayland --drm --xwayland plasma-phone 2>&1 | logger -t "$(whoami):plasma-mobile"
 		else
+			# NOTE: using GALLIUM_DRIVER=llvmpipe might give you better performance (or not work at all.)
+			# If it does give you a performance gain, please open an issue to discuss how to implement this properly.
+			export GALLIUM_DRIVER=softpipe
 			export KWIN_COMPOSE=Q
+			export LIBGL_ALWAYS_SOFTWARE=1
+
+			echo "start_plasma.sh: using software rendering with: ${GALLIUM_DRIVER}" | logger -t "$(whoami):plasma-mobile"
 			ck-launch-session kwin_wayland --framebuffer --xwayland plasma-phone 2>&1 | logger -t "$(whoami):plasma-mobile"
 		fi
 	fi