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[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

I so wish Linux phones were actually a usable thing so that we could have functional pocket computers.
The attempts made so far weren't very convincing.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Those were pretty great. I would have expected them to live in as a niche product, but no such luck.

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

I mean, there is Sailfish OS. They do live on in a niche capacity, but it's very niche.

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

Neo900 was almost a thing

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

One of those alternative universe split points. What if Nokia had just put a damn modem in the n700/800/810 and invented the iPhone before the iPhone.......

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

Hey, you appreciate your monkey’s paw wish and enjoy your android.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Honestly we probably can just somehow shove Linux components like flatpak and other stuff like the terminal into android, make them apks somehow so they can work whenever

Of course this would be hard AF to do but I just want to run tik tok in a sealed off VM using flatseal goddamnit (I don't trust it with my phone but I want to access the videos on it)

[–] decisivelyhoodnoises 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah, and then run a android emulator inside that and then use tik tok, reminds me of that attempt to run old Mac os on a Wii since they're but PowerPC based, but it ended in a ton of conversions and it taking like 20 mins to click something, but it won't be that bad probably

Gonna mess with it once I get a new phone tho, can't now since it's filled with crap

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

You can do many Linuxy-terminaly things with Termux. I use it quite often. Write shell scripts in vim, run Python scripts, SSH, use ADB tools to manage other android devices, install and update things with pkg/apt, traverse your phones filesystem as you would in Linux, if you have root on your phone you can even do root stuff! Heck, you can even run neofetch! All that and more on your tiny little phone screen!

[–] Patches 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There is this

https://ubuntu-touch.io/

But I'm not sure it's up-to-snuff. Never touched it myself.

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

Unfortunately it’s not

Phones also have the added benefit of needing the OS tweaked for every device

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Even mainstream Linux phones like the Pinephone aren't perfect

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

My point was more that the small community is fragmented further

If Voila, Libre, Pine, etc were able to pass fixes upstream that all worked for the other then things would be in a better state