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The Discussion on Linux-based Phones.
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- Hardware freedom.
- Perfect operating-system competition.
- Full utilization of specs.
- Phone lifespan raises to 10+ years.
- Less e-waste.
Linux Mobile Distros:
- Postmarket OS
- Ubuntu Touch
- Mobian
- Sailfish
- Manjaro Arm
- Pure OS
- Plasma Mobile
- LuneOS
- FuriOS
- Nemomobile
- Droidian
- Mobile NixOS
- ExpidusOS
- Maemo Leste
- Tizen
- WebOS
Linux Mobile Hardware:
- Fairphone 5
- Volla Phone
- Librem 5
- PinePhone
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NLNet really needs to start funding Flare, the GTK Signal client. If there was a native, fully featured client, I'd drop flaship price on a Linux phone yesterday!
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I have a work phone I can fall back to in the worst case scenario, and I have been consciously avoiding phone use a lot lately.
I am ready to ride out some bugs in a Linux phone.
Edit to add: Or, given the state of the US government and its potential close ties to various tech oligarchs, maybe I should just keep this old iphone as long as possible and just not put anything sensitive on it. I mean we're talking about violent people who think "if you have nothing to hide you have nothing to worry about" is unassailable logic.
The only thing I need on a phone is too use nfc
crys in dusty pinephone(not pro) on my shelf
We've been 'setting up the ground work' for Linux on Desktop and Phones for decades. It's not the groundwork that's the issue, it's adoption.
Its the lack of openness and standards on hardware, drivers, and boot sequence for ARM chipsets and phone hardware that's the problem. x86/x86_64 hardware had standards that the industry settled on so the Linux adoption was fairly quick, with phone hardware, every phone, android kernel, camera hardware and driver, display hardware and driver, etc is slightly different so the hardware is so hard to adopt when literally every device has to be blackbox reverse engineered because the hardware manufacturers don't make anything open or standard.
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Groundwork on what? The only Linux phone I've seen that I'd want is the Jolla C2 and they don't ship outside the EU so I can't even get one
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"can"
I support this so much, however due to work, I can not get away from Android/iOS. Many companies want you to install Microsoft Authenticator with this generally wanting to prompt you for MFA authorisation when accessing company resources. On top of this they often want you running Company Portal on your device too if you're accessing resources such as emails or IM
Then they need to give you a work phone.
My personal phone is rooted. I couldn't access anything work related (beyond authenticator) on it even if I wanted to.
I resisted carrying two phones for the longest time... up until recently I worked for places with relatively small IT departments and I trusted the people I worked with and worked for. Now I'm with a much larger company and I don't even know all the people in IT, much less how they have their MDM system setup.
What I didn't expect was how nice it feels to be able to put the phone down when I get home and then forget about it. Of course, anyone who may need to reach me in an emergency knows my personal number, but that's only happened once in the past 2 years.
I'm actually losing money because I have two phones. (My company pays for a brand new phone and all the mobile data and calls) I could just switch to that phone for the low price of Microsoft intune. But I don't want to stress if I download a sketchy app or something that my work phone would get infected. And the feeling when I get home and toss my work phone to my backpack and don't have to worry about is worth the money I pay for my own phone.
I was forced into using Microsoft Authenticator as well, but you can extract the tokens it uses for TOTP code generation from its database lol.
I wish that there were better kernels around. A monopoly (Windows on a desktop, Linux on a phone - well, at least iOS still has BSD) is not a good thing on any platform.
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The only thing I ask for is VoLTE actually working.
before
Nope. No time.