No one here is talking about regular people. Regular people will keep using stock Android.
UBports still relies on Android kernel and services. Custom ROMs are such a small part of the Android ecosystem that I didn’t think Google will go after them yet they did. Can we be sure in a couple of years they will not try to destroy Android based distros like UBports?
I also don’t really like the entire idea behind UBports. It’s so heavily modified you can’t even easily run native Linux apps so you’re limited to Ubuntu Touch apps. As a developer I’m not really interested in learning completely new framework that supports only one platform. We have solutions to create cross platform Linux-Android apps so I can move my apps from Android phone to PostmarketOS without any work, they already work there.
So I’m supporting PostmarketOS and I really hope it will be usable when my Pixel phone dies. If not I will switch to something Halium based. What else is there to do?
viking@infosec.pub 1 month ago
Can you install generic apks on UBports, or only precompiled .deb packages and other native Linux applications?
BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world 1 month ago
It’s a full version of Linux. It also has a desktop mode if you want to use it with an external monitor, keyboard, and mouse. You have all the same control you would have on other Ubuntu-based flavors.