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The Discussion on Linux-based Phones.
Benefits:
- 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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Would Linux phones be able to run APK's easily?
I don't see a phone OS beign viable unless it will work with most mobile apps
I mean, you can run APKs on desktop Linux, so I don’t see why not. Plenty of emulators, but also other options like WayDroid, a compatibility layer, or Anbox which puts android in to a container and then merges the system services.
Makes sense, I hope it can be made to work smoothly, I would so love a Linux phone. But would only switch if I can run my banking apps etc. on there
I'm planning to get a fairphone before my current phone dies, so I can try out Linux on a phone and still have a good android phone if it doesn't work out.
I really really hope it does work out though.
Would be amazing if you could dual-boot. Could run Linux as your main, and dual boot to something else for banking apps etc.
A Linux phone would definitely benefit from being able to run Android apps but Huawei seems to be doing fine with HarmonyOS and as far as I can tell that doesn't run APKs anymore.
You can, with waydroid. It runs nicely and is performant but rather underfeatured (no GPS access/emulation!)