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Wish Linux Devs help build and polish OS for Pinephone. I really want Linux to go mainstream. Tired of android and Apple.
The issue is a lack of an app ecosystem with actual AAA apps.
This! I used Ubuntu Touch as my daily driver for 1 1/2 years. The OS itself was anything but perfect but the real problem was definetly the app ecosystem. WayDroid(an android "emulator") optimization is probably the way to go for linux on mobile
Waydroid could fix that gap tho, the same way Wine/Proton does on the desktop
Sure but that's always going to be sub par experience.
Waydroid already works really well, it's just small things like notification support that are missing