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which linux phone is the most promising? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I want to donate to a linux phone. I believe in linux and I want a linux phone. Maybe we can use one in very few years as a normal daily driver. It's getting closer and closer every month.

I want to donate that we get there sooner. But which project? I'm following postmarket but I'm not sure if they are the most promising. What's your stance on this? To which project would you give your money to accellerate it?

Edit: I don't want to buy a phone. I want to support the phone os devs. Sorry for the bad wording.

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 8 months ago (1 children)

The main problem is political not technical. The market had been allowed to become a duopoly and too many critical things now need an app on an Android or Apple phone. The worse I know is banks needing an app for authentication for their online banking. No separate security device anymore, those are ewaste apparently.

Public EV chargers where you can only control them from an app.

Riding book at theme parks. The cases are growing. Even the app is just wrapper of hidden web page!

Frankly I think regulation is required to get competition in the market. Not the only tech one either. Why is it so hard for law makers to see monopoly in tech?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Can't Linux phones run android apps pretty seamlessly via waydroid anyway though?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Increasingly lots of stuff won't work without all of the Google services. Banking apps won't run on root devices or anything odd they detect.

Even without that, I can say how seamless it is.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Banking apps won't run on root devices or anything odd they detect.

Banking apps will run in Android emulation layers on GNU/Linux.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

That's good, though I still think it's a problem they exist. I mean a lot of apps are a webpage wrapped in an app anyway, so why not just a webpage and skip the platform dependence.

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