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State of Signal on Linux phones (swg-empire.de)

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

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I'm toying with the idea of trying to get Linux on my Fairphone 3 running. But one thing that was lacking on my Pinephone back then was the lack of a good Signal client. There were one or two available, but they were clunky. I helped out with one or two tickets but I lacked the time to do more and now I lack the energy.

So, is there a viable way to get Signal on a Linux phone? Maybe Waydroid? Or does that suck too much energy?

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

There's Flare but it's definitely not feature complete.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Nice, I will try it out.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

https://forums.puri.sm/t/signal-app-now-usable-in-portrait-mode-on-l5/21278

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Oh yeah, this looked quite good. I've been using waydroid with kdeconnect on phosh.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

There is Axolotl or Wayland, as far as I know.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There are several (paid) Matrix services that allow bridges to other networks like Signal, WhatsApp, Telegram etc. Then, you can use matrix clients like nheko or matrix' web version in a browser,

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

That'd also mean breaking E2EE. I'm fine with bridges in general, but not for systems where people expect communication with me to be private.

A solution would be to run a Signal bridge at home, that way you can keep the keys somewhat secure at least.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I haven't tried it on a phone but Signal has a flatpak available so maybe try that.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It's their desktop client. It's x86 only because of Electron.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Ah, that makes sense. I'm curious if someone else knows, though.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Officially, yes, but there's also https://elagost.com/flatpak/ Also (shameless self plug): https://linuxphoneapps.org/apps/org.signal.signal/