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@Imaginary_Stand4909@lemmy.blahaj.zone on lemmy.blahaj.zone Open parent
I Bought a Linux Phone in 2026
cross-posted from: lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/39351554 Samtime tries out a Fairphone 6 running Ubuntu Touch and it seemed pretty fine. Noted issues were the second camera not working, GPS/Map app being a bit weird, and imo, the screen showing all the apps you have open is terrible. But with the reg app store and waydroid, I think it could be almost managable to use. My mom is a battery life fiend though, so that part she won’t let go of. What’s your thoughts?
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They need funding. Some people, countries and unions have an increased interest in tech independence.
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@ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net on slrpnk.net Open parent
For anyone reading thus, please consider donating to PostmarketOS or Mobian if you have the means, as it will help us escape the Android ecosystem which is getting more and more anti-user due to google controlling it.
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@linule@lemmy.world on lemmy.world Open parent
What’s the pitch here? Initial impression is that it makes the ecosystem fragmented, as now (along with Ubuntu Touch), people have at least 3 different projects to fund. There needs to be a core standard that unifies the efforts and funding.
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@ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net · Mar 03
The issue with Ubuntu Touch is that unfortunately it’s not a genuine alternative to Android, as it actually relies on Android quite a lot to function as well as it does. It often uses an outdated Android kernel (which is also usually not receiving security updates) and a Halium abstraction layer to access the closed source binary blob Android drivers for the phone’s hardware. It also requires that it be installed on top of an existing Android install, so in all it’s more of a Linux abstraction layer on top of Android, which means it’s not truly escaping the control of the Android ecosystem. PostmarketOS and Mobian are genuinely Mobile focused Linux distros that run on the mainline up-to-date Linux kernel the bare metal, meaning they are not subject to any influence from Google. Both projects often collaborate and benefit from each other, they just use a different base distro (Alpine for PostmarketOS, Debian for Mobian), but that doesn’t result in any wasted effort, as ultimately any new developments, drivers, or new phone support are mainlined into the kernel itself, so both projects benefit. They’re not as usable as Ubuntu Touch is right now, but they are ultimately the better solutions long-term to ensure that all the code is under community control so we aren’t reliant on outdated unsecure Android components.
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