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Sadly linux on phones is currently in its infancy. I mean, there is a reason why people use other custom ROMs and not linux. I ended up just switching to lineage os, at least it works
Was in the market for a new phone and was thinking of getting the latest Pine phone, and upon research, I found that like others have stated, it is more of a piece of kit to tinker with and not a daily driver. The OS is still being baked and at the current rate it might take a few years before it is as responsive and as useful as Android is day in, and day out. There is just no contest. Which was a bit disappointing as I actually though the OS was far more developed.
I do hope that progress is made, but, if you need a phone that works well, then stick with Android for now. Hardware on latest Pine is better than on the first phone but still Mid, at best, and it is not cheap for the hardware you get.
nowhere close to being daily driver material. and I don't mean the esoteric stuff you mention (NFC, 5G, etc.) I mean just normal, everyday stuff, like you turn it on and it works. source: I own the fastest device supported by pmOS and no UI (gnome, phosh, plasma, etc) works even remotely acceptable.
this is a fun project to tinker with and marvel at some choices made but if you're thinking you can switch, that's simply not an item on the menu.
them guys are working on super-complex stuff with no funds to speak of and expecting anything resembling an OS that's developed for close to two decades by the richest corporations in the world isn't realistic.
sucks to hear, but thanks for your info!!
you should definitely pick up a oneplus 6 or POCO F1 or similar (8 GB RAM), they should be in the $50 range and play around with it. the OS will get better with participation and there's a number of things you can do on there that's downright impossible on Android. I'm just cautioning that it's not a substitute; but neither was Linux not that long ago.
[email protected] and [email protected] aren't the busiest communities but there do seem to be a few people giving it a proper go
I think were still pretty far away from a true Linux phone it seems we're in the Linux desktop circa 2002. Unless you're willing to deal with alpha software its still best to flash a ROM.
I've used a pinephone pro with arch and postmarket.
It works, but you really have to love linux to use it as a daily driver.
My banking app (bunq) worked using way droid.
i started to use ubuntu touch on a pixel5 in 2020. did this for almost two years until the phone broke down. it also was my first smartphone. so it opened up new possibilities.
i switched to a google free android after this. honestly i miss ubuntu touch from time to time especialy for its keyboard. i never used banking apps or the like, but even now there is one app i need some workarounds. so yeah. i guess the linux phone is viable for me. i just didn't want to go for second hand hardware this time. and at the time the phone i went for wasn't yet supported by ut.
haven't had a look into the linux phone for a while. but will definetly, the next time i need to switch phones
Ubuntu Touch is such a nice user experience. If it had an Android-tier app ecosystem it'd be a very nice daily driver.
back then it didn't have signal-client i could get to work. that is of course a hard no if you work in the us military ...
Sounds like it's possible, but maybe with a backup phone. Unfortunately I do have some apps that I need to be able to run which only support iOS and android
anbox exists. but yeah. it's not for everyone and every situation.
Anbox is dead,wadroid exist nowdays
A lot of banking apps don't even run on a custom Android ROM and it gets worse. Haven't tried CJK keyboards on PostmarketOS so wondering that as well.
I am very interested in hearing first hand accounts as well. Specifically Librem that one looks cool.