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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

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Should I install Linux on my smartphone? (lemmy.ca)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I have a Samsung Galaxy J3 (2018) smartphone which currently has the stock Samsung Android OS installed on it. I wanted to install an Android "distro" that doesn't spy on me, like Graphene OS, but I couldn't find a ROM for it. Since I would probably need to compile AOSP from source code anyways, I though, why not install Gentoo on my smartphone (doing the compilation on a more powerful computer using distcc). I have already installed Gentoo on both my laptop and desktop from a stage3 tarball and I'm loving it, so I guess doing the same on my smartphone wouldn't be too hard.

Now, the problem is that I need to use a few apps that are not available on Linux, like the proprietary app that I use to pay for my bus tickets. How well does waydroid work?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

I just bought a OnePlus 6 to test out mobile Linux and it's not there yet. Firefox it a pain to use and it doesn't auto rotate either. So far it's been good to read manga on and.... Ye that's about it. Camera doesn't work on it and the UI still isn't the best. I haven't used KDE's DE for phones yet but I've used phosh and now I'm using gnome mobile and so far gnome mobile is a lot better but still buggy. I'm excited for the future development of it but with how locked down phones are it's a bleak future