▲ 177 ▼ I Tried Running Ubuntu on My Phone, Here's How It Went (www.howtogeek.com) submitted 2 years ago by tifriis@sh.itjust.works to c/linux@lemmy.ml 49 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] solrize@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago (1 child) This is about installing on a Nexus 5 which is from 2013. Sounds painful. permalink fedilink source hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] ritchie@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago And it will not get upgraded to 20.04, it will stay on 16.04. My biggest issue was that I could not do much with it. It was only a bit better than a dumbphone. Without apps, every mobile OS dies and back in the day I could not even get Signal working. It was a pain to set up webdav for contacts sync and when I gave up and wanted to use my own nextcloud, it refused to work because of my https cert... permalink fedilink source parent
[–] ritchie@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago And it will not get upgraded to 20.04, it will stay on 16.04. My biggest issue was that I could not do much with it. It was only a bit better than a dumbphone. Without apps, every mobile OS dies and back in the day I could not even get Signal working. It was a pain to set up webdav for contacts sync and when I gave up and wanted to use my own nextcloud, it refused to work because of my https cert... permalink fedilink source parent