That’s sound in theory, but app developers don’t really test on low end phones, so the apps tend to get more and more bloated as time goes by. As soon as you need something with a map, you’re pretty much fucked. Looking at all the hiking maps that just get progressively worse without adding anything that I care for.
Well Jolla phones run Sailfish OS which doesn’t support this anyway so probably not the phone you should be buying (And the phone supporting Sailfish OS doesn’t suggest at all that it’ll be able to run a “regular” Linux distribution either)
Asfalttikyntaja@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
Look at its specs. Processor and screen and so on.
Miaou@jlai.lu 3 weeks ago
People need to stop wanking over specs for a device that’ll be used 99% of the time to send text messages and watch YouTube videos
What do you need on a phone that takes 8gb+ ram?
merdaverse@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
That’s sound in theory, but app developers don’t really test on low end phones, so the apps tend to get more and more bloated as time goes by. As soon as you need something with a map, you’re pretty much fucked. Looking at all the hiking maps that just get progressively worse without adding anything that I care for.
quack@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
I need my pocket sized spaceship computer for shitposting and occasionally checking my email
oakward@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
To connect it to a dock station and have a full desktop experience. That is my use case
Piece_Maker@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago
Well Jolla phones run Sailfish OS which doesn’t support this anyway so probably not the phone you should be buying (And the phone supporting Sailfish OS doesn’t suggest at all that it’ll be able to run a “regular” Linux distribution either)
Vanilla_PuddinFudge@infosec.pub 3 weeks ago
Also put the OS into perspective. The specs might not do for Android normally but might be just fine functionally, for Linux.