A notable mention is ubports.com/en/ which is different from postmarketos in a sense that ubports uses old kernels with heavy patches. That means: good support for things, but difficult future.
PostmarketOS uses the newest kernels and tries to integrate their patches into mainline kernel, so that the reliability is maintained with all kernel developers.
watson387@sopuli.xyz 3 days ago
I can’t wait for Linux phones to be stable enough for a daily driver.
CHKMRK@programming.dev 2 days ago
2026 will be the year of the linux phone
Asfalttikyntaja@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
Please stop. I can’t get my dick back into my trousers.
BreakerSwitch@lemm.ee 2 days ago
Given that Win10 is getting deprecated this year and Win11 has specific hardware requirements, I think 2025 could be the year of the linux PC. I’ll be curious to see how massive corporations for which this would mean millions or billions in hardware upgrades to stick with Win will square that circle.
watson387@sopuli.xyz 2 days ago
XD
crawancon@lemm.ee 3 days ago
that has been said since before the nokia n600. lol
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
And we’ll keep saying it until we get there.
airglow@lemmy.world 2 days ago
The FuriPhone, which runs the FuriOS Linux distribution, has a polished enough user experience that it can be used as a daily driver by many people.
timbuck2themoon@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
I somehow only recently saw this (few weeks ago) but man it looks awesome. I’m curious how well the android layer works as I haven’t used waydroid in a long time.
It’s not cheap enough to take a lark on is my only qualm.
bdonvr@thelemmy.club 3 days ago
It seems like Linux-compatible handsets stopped around 2021. Except a few bespoke models that are hard to get your hands on outside of Europe.
I have a OnePlus Nord N10 flashed with Ubuntu Touch as a tinker device, unfortunately in the US it’s not daily-able because we shut down 3g and 2g networks and they still haven’t managed to get VoLTE working on Ubuntu Touch yet (though it may be coming in the next year!) so phone calls don’t work.
There’s also the Pixel 3a/3a XL which are plentiful and cheap but I like the N10 a bit more because of the additional RAM. Makes it feel a little less old compared to the Pixel.
oshu@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Sorry but the pinephone is not great. I have one and its extremely underpowered to the point of uselessness.
Its like trying to use a 486 to as a current desktop.
Cyber@feddit.uk 1 day ago
Are you saying I could get Linux running on my Fairphone 3+?
Mind you, yeah, 3G switch off would then make life difficult…
solrize@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Good luck, phone hardware changes very fast though.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
I’m okay with an older phone, I just want basic features to work consistently and well. Maybe support a newer phone every 5 years or so to provide an upgrade path.
Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
So does pc hardware but Linux can breathe new life into even an old PC since the bloat does grow at the same rate as the hardware unlike other OSes
iopq@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Yet the performance basically peaked already. They are doing 15% increases at the top end and less for the cheapest phones.
CmdrShepard42@lemm.ee 2 days ago
Maybe whenever slider phones with full keyboards come back. Typing in the terminal would be a real chore otherwise.
tetris11@lemmy.ml 2 days ago
You do get used to it to some degree, but yes please bring the keyboards back
Estebiu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
They are already. My Redmi Note 7 runs Droidian perfectly.
Tattorack@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Can Linux mobile OSs install apk apps?
watson387@sopuli.xyz 2 days ago
Really? I’ll have to do some searching online. I have a Mi 10T around here somewhere.
Ulrich@feddit.org 3 days ago
I mean probably never? You’d have to design hardware specifically that’s compatible with Linux, which would cost a fortune, in the hopes of selling a whole bunch of them, and they can’t even get large numbers of people to use Linux for free.
Feyd@programming.dev 3 days ago
What makes you think that?
rice@lemmy.org 2 days ago
they already exist, the (software) interface is what needs work.
rice@lemmy.org 2 days ago
The best solution today is to get actual phone / text apps working on the handhelds and just start using steamdecks etc lmao.
VOIP solutions obviously already do work.