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The Discussion on Linux-based Phones.
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- Hardware freedom.
- Perfect operating-system competition.
- Full utilization of specs.
- Phone lifespan raises to 10+ years.
- Less e-waste.
Linux Mobile Distros:
- Ubuntu Touch
- Sailfish
- FuriOS
- Postmarket OS
- Mobian
- Pure OS
- Plasma Mobile
- LuneOS
- openSUSE Mobile
- Nemomobile
- Droidian
- Mobile NixOS
- ExpidusOS
- Maemo Leste
- Manjaro Arm
- Tizen
- WebOS
Linux Mobile Hardware:
- Fairphone 5
- Volla Phone
- PinePhone
- FLX1
- Librem 5
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Can't wait to get my Jolla phone.
Is it the ultimate solution?
No, but while postmarkeOS makes progress and receives money on a monthly basis from me, I can hope for a daily driver that can do the job until pmOS is ready.
I don't even have a good oversight of what's available. And it's useless as long as my pixel lives. When it's done, the market will have changed massively anyway 😁
But Jolla sounded nice. Right now I would want an Ubuntu touch. But that really is an uninformed opinion.
Only thing I will miss, no matter which I'd take, will be a great camera probably.
Ubuntu touch is "open-washed" just like Android. I mean, technically you could do everything, like on Android. But you are basically limited to the one app store.
I know because a friend tried it. I recalled it having Snapcraft but I guess not, it came with "open store". It is bloated as fuck. Well, at least it has some sort of server source, so "open" is technically correct, but nobody is using it because nobody cares about Ubuntu Touch seriously. No idea how it works but I am guessing it's the same "install whole userspace with program" thing. Most of the "apps" are web wrappers and automated repackagings from elsewhere. A lot less actually touchscreen-only usable programs than like the Alpine repos, mostly full of stuff like "An appointment calendar, a clock, a terminal, a control panel, an MS-DOS executive AND, can you believe it, reversi!".
There's a "terminal" app but the root filesystem is read only by default, only slightly less useless than a terminal emulator on unrooted Android.
Haven't read into Jolla and such but I am guessing it's all the same shit. Corporate mobile OSes that just happen to be running unixy kernel/user spaces aren't new at all. A keypad phone I have from 2009 lists "FreeBSD kernel" under "License and legal info". Amazing! But useless.
If your pixel is not too old, GrapheneOS can fill the gap to your next phone.
It's what I run right now.
While it's still Android, it can at least be had without Google apps.
Oh i already have it. The day google told their final date for closing down. Half my apps are my own and I sure as hell won't give google my real data and money.
Had to buy 2 other phones, one for banking (stupid ass lazy banks) and one for android auto (still better than onboard-cages).
All would be fine if their phones were free. But paying bigtime AND not owning? Fuck you