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    "But my friend runs a PinePhone as a daily driver" (lemmy.ml)
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    [–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

    I think when people say "Linux phone" they mean GNU/Linux.

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    No. Most people mean PostmarketOS, which is Busybox/musl/Linux

    [–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

    No? PMOS isn't the only thing people refer to by "Linux phone", often its something like Ubuntu touch, which absolutely is GNU.

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

    Fair but Ubuntu Touch is not mainline Linux. It's a hack to get a GNU/systemd Userland working with an Android kernel (which arguably is also a huge feat)

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

    A lot of people use Manjaro and Mobian (mobile Debian).

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

    Sure, but PMOS is by far the most complete and "daily-ready" mobile mainline Linux distro out there. In fact I'm pretty sure both Mobian and MoA use the PMOS kernels...

    [–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

    I haven't used postmarketOS, but I don't see why it would be any better than Mobian or Manjaro (Manjaro might not be the most stable though). Maybe you are talking about Android phones, in which case you are probably right - other distros might not support those so well. postmarketOS and other distros don't use mainline Linux, so I don't know why you would call them that, though. For me this is the biggest flaw of GNU/Linux phones.

    I know that postmarketOS developers contribute a lot in different areas, but so do Mobian developers. I think the kernel we use was initially developed by Megi.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

    Ah, you probably right, I think it's more common.

    I personally run ArchLinux on my PinePhone.