Post #2395901

2025-12-16 18:53 UTC

@channelOwen@fosstodon.org @chrastecky@phpc.social What's the skinny on Linux phones? I am in the market for a phone, and ready to jump out of the walled gardens of corporations, into the world of #DigitalSovereignty and #Privacy Also, I have always wanted to say, "I have a kill switch." Is it too much to plug in display/storage/keyboard/mouse into the phone and use it as an IDE for development? Any recommendations? Thanks in advance! 😃

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@channelOwen@fosstodon.org 2025-12-16 18:58

@purrperl@noc.social @chrastecky@phpc.social The company I got mine from exported to the EU via Spain, used the mobile version of Ubuntu, and went bust/ stopped retailing. I like the idea of same OS on phone, and ability to do `apt update` on it.

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@channelOwen@fosstodon.org 2025-12-16 19:03

@purrperl@noc.social @chrastecky@phpc.social If i wanted another, I would look carefully a FairPhone ~ these will allow end-users access to parts. You probably can plugin a kill-switch to a fairphone 😃

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@chrastecky@phpc.social 2025-12-16 20:54

@purrperl@noc.social @channelOwen@fosstodon.org SailfishOS is really a mobile OS, not a desktop reskinned as a phone. From what I've read it's also the only Linux phone OS that can be a daily driver unless your needs are very limited. Getting your IDE to work is definitely possible, but there most likely aren't any ready made packages, you'd be on your own to compile it. If you know Linux, you can do pretty much anything (I recently packaged Proton Bridge for SailfishOS, for example), it just might be a bit harder.

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@channelOwen@fosstodon.org 2025-12-18 18:24

@purrperl@noc.social did you see this? https://itsfoss.com/linux-phones/ previously posted by @vladimirvc@fosstodon.org

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