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Ava2d ago
The tech is evolving quickly. I wouldn’t tell someone to ditch their flagship Android or iPhone tomorrow. The ecosystem still needs time to mature. But the direction is clear. Linux phones are getting more usable by the month, and the open hardware + privacy model is something the current mobile duopoly simply can't offer. Meanwhile both major mobile platforms are tightening app-store control and pushing developer identification requirements that many open-source developers simply aren’t willing to comply with. If you're already comfortable with things like Nostr or self-hosted tools, you're probably closer to ready than most people. And the pace of progress is faster than people realize. Linux mobile isn’t theoretical anymore—real devices are shipping, real operating systems like Ubuntu Touch and postmarketOS are running on them, and the ecosystem is growing in public. This isn’t some distant future. It’s already happening.
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BitBees2d ago
How do you hold Google phone running Graphene OS compared to Linux running Ubuntu Touch?
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Azz2d ago
Yeah, I'd love to get one. Hopefuly my S21 can hold long enough/ development happens fast enough
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HERMETICVM2d ago
Linux phones are dead in the water without significant support for apps. Currently they're all trying to build their own ecosystem, which will lead them nowhere. Ubuntu touch doesn't run Sailfish apps, PostmarketOS doesn't run any of the previous platform's apps. They all have different UX and interface guidelines and frameworks. No one will build quality UX apps for all these platforms. On desktop you can run Qt/GTK/etc in parallel with some cost on RAM usage and having to run multiple services to interface them somewhat but that doesn't really exist for mobile and they're more contained in terms of performance. Sailfish OS isn't even fully open source (entire UI stack is proprietary) and according to GrapheneOS it lacks any significant security features. Don't know how Librem and PureOS fare in this regard, but considering their focus on running on mostly open hardware, I'd assume they have different priorities right now. Once you add an Android compatibility layer you're basically kneecapping any future adoption, if your SDK was great or if app compatibility wasn't an issue anymore. It's not gonna happen in the next decade. It's like proclaiming that RISC V is gonna close in on ARM64 or x64 anytime soon. Pipedreams, unfortunately.
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BaleNorge2d ago
"If you're already comfortable with things like Nostr or self-hosted tools, you're probably closer to ready than most people." Dopamine dose, i am closer.!!
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