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I used Linux on a phone for 30 days, here's why I'm sticking with it, and why you likely won't! (tilvids.com)
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[–] Vicinus@piefed.zip 50 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (27 children)

Tldw: He mentions the new beta version of Ubuntu touch solved many problems. And he's going to use it as a daily driver going forward.

The problems he had were banking apps, photo sync, copy-paste from waydroid to Ubuntu touch, and notifications between waydroid and Ubuntu touch. He shows the waydroid to/from Linux works in KDE. So, probably a relatively quick fix for those 2 problems.

Edit: spelling.

[–] YurkshireLad@lemmy.ca 17 points 1 week ago (15 children)

Don’t banks have websites he can log into?

[–] brb@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 week ago

In Finland bank apps are used as a form of digital ID / strong 2FA. You are pretty much forced to have it

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