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cries in firefox os
Waiting for a stable release for OnePlus 7.
When I first saw this... This is like a very very bad free Android icon pack. Makes the phone straight unusable. Can you actually switch to the normal "theme"? My wife unfortunately has an iPhone and I, as an IT guy in the family, usually get blamed for OS updates on her phone, whenever something becomes different. This won't go down easily :)
I am writing this comment on an ubuntu touch phone, it is very usable surprisingly, been on it for months now
Are you in the US? If yes, which band (GSM/CDMA) and which phone? Ive been wanting to get off of pixels & Android for ages but I'm scared of not being able to actually use my phone as a phone.
Are you just using web login for everything then? Like for banking and such?
How do you navigate Incompatibilities?
Holy fuck that looks like ass
what phone is that? is that what Apple's liquid glass looks like?
This is only a Control center thing AFAIK.
I'm very open to being an early adopter of mobile Linux phones. I've been unable to because of a couple of factors. I last seriously checked about half a year ago so take this with a pinch of salt.
- Limited support for specific models. This means that the phone will work as a computer but won't have the correct drivers for gyro, sim and whatnot.
- Lack of extensive driver support. Phones turn off components to save power, this was not supported the last time I checked and halves the battery life compared to stock android.
- Waydroid support incomplete. Many apps will work but some apps will bug out. Waydroid also has performance issues so it's not as good as WINE for example.
- Not big enough community. A lot of models are maintained by a single dev that checks in every blue moon.
To get a Linux phone to be competitive on performance we'll need to get driver APIs and component lists open sourced so it'll be easier to gather the appropriate info and make drivers.
There has been tons of progress though, Gnome and KDE have really strong touch support now and the apps scale decently.
It's coming but now fairphone is the only phone that openly supports Linux mobile distros and is open sourced.
I’m very open to being an early adopter of mobile Linux phones.
vs
the rest of your post
What you are trying to say is you are very open to be a late adopter of mobile Linux phones, adopting a Linux phone when it actually works.
Early adopters are those who tough out the crap. The issue with Linux phones is they've been stuck in early adopter land for the last 20 years.
In my case my country simply doesn't get any
Lack of extensive driver support. Phones turn off components to save power, this was not supported the last time I checked and halves the battery life compared to stock android.
The lack of extensive driver support is real, but I've actually doubled my battery's power with Lineage OS just by removing bloatware
LineageOS is based on android so it gets a lot of goodies with it.
I am so considering starting to experiment with an Linux phone. But it will be a long time until it can do contactless payments, bank apps, safe biometrics and heavy apps. Now that I think about it,it shouldn't be impossible.
I would say give up on contactless if you ever want to use a Linux phone. In addition to the fact that if youre in the US Google/Apple/Samsung are definitely selling your spending habits to the highest bidder, I see no future short of world peace where banks agree to work with FOSS devs to create a secure enough system for wireless payment to work.
Get a thin case and put your card in it numbers facing in. It works the same :P
Sorry but having to carry a wallet is a big trade-off for me. I would give up a lot of data for the convenience I have been enjoying for years of not carrying a single card.
SailfishOS (on Sony Xperia 10) and UbuntuTouch exist. Also the PinePhone but that is low low end.
Guys. I have a samsung m30s. The problem with it is its usb port must be kept at a specific angle... So i bought a new phone.
Now I am thinking of installing Linux on it. How can I go about it?
I like plasma on my desktop.
TLDR: How to install Linux on Samsung M30s
Too In-Depth; Didn't Research (Tid;Dr) response:
Can your bootloader be unlocked?
if no, no linux
if yes, is someone developing Ubuntu Touch, Manjaro Mobile, PostmarketOS etc. for it?
if no, learn how to port linux
if yes find their documentation and follow it
Quality/Results may vary
Tbh, unless you want to suffer A LOT, the best option is to get any Android phone, install Termux and on top install any Linux distro you like (if you want easy mode, pay for Andronix which helps with installation).
Then you just run your Linux distro in a container on Android and view its virtual screen using a VNC viewer app.
That way you get a fully-working Android phone that can run most Linux apps without breaking your main phone use case. The only thing you are really lacking is low-level access because it's running in a root-less proot container. So no hardware acceleration or other fancy hardware stuff.
Wasn't it always the year of Linux phones like Android has huge share of market and it is running Linux kernel but with Google spyware. Now it's just Apple Spyware.
Lineage OS is android without google spy
without the proprietary google services package yes, but not entirely free from google. one obv example is connectivity check that pings google is still there as far as im aware (please feel free to correct)
I've been using custom ROMs since Cyanogen Mod 14. I know. But still the share of google spyware is high.
Wtf is this
Apple’s godawful new OS style. They call it “Liquid Glass” and it makes no UX sense.
*liquid ass
How are yous upposed to seeanything ?
I'd like to use a Linux phone, but it has to run Android apps though. They Gotta find a way, else it's never gonna happen.
I mean Waydroid runs Android apps on linux. Its currently the only way to play Roblox on linux with only 1 layer of trust (Roblox itself) (Sober exists but theres no source code, meaning you have to trust Roblox and SoberDevs code)
SailfishOS can do that. They have a sandbox for android that you should not really notice as a end user.
How good is it with background activities?
About the only thing holding me back is that my phone runs a continuous glucose monitor, constantly connecting with a small sensor in my arm. That all quietly dying in the background would just... not be an option.
I'm always surprised more people still don't know about it but FuriLabs does have an offering which I've heard does this pretty well: https://furilabs.com/shop/flx1/
And some more info. (albeit, 9 months old): https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1fa1ljn/furilabs_flx1/
It is using Halium but, otherwise, it's proper GNU+Linux with decent spec.s.
I really want one of these.
A phone I'm excited for is the Bigme Hibreak Pro. Its got an e-paper screen that refreshes at a tolerable speed, and you can install apps from the Google Play store which run just fine. Will it ever play video smoothly? Fuck no. Is it cool? Also no. Is it horrifically expensive? Surprisingly, also no.
Bigme has also made some exciting (but way too expensive) progress in the desktop computer world by making a 60hz eink monitor. It frankly is terrible at most things people do on their home computers, but it can keep up just fine with the boring work stuff like Vim and the MS Office Suite. Am I willing to pay almost $2k for a monitor for work? Absolutely not, but I'm glad it exists.
I'd honestly like to have an e-ink monitor because I do a lot of coding and writing, without 60hz, just like e-book with speedy updates over empty space. It can be a secondary one dedicated to just these tasks. But the lack of demand makes it too exclusive for my pocket.
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