Do you think #Linux on #phones is usable for daily use in its current state?
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@survey I tried a Pinephone beta thing and it kept turning the screen off so dim I couldn't see it. But maybe there are better models out there
I really really really wanted to be ready, but it's not ready.
But for whatever it's worth, when I bought my first Android phone, that wasn't ready either. I think Linux is more ready now than Android was then.
At some point in the near future I would like to pick up a pine phone pro to see if additional hardware can be thrown into the problem. I tried the Nexus 5 and pine phone, and neither one of them can really drive the software well enough.
I will say that there are some non-standard forms of Linux that are much closer. The Ubuntu phone is basically usable at this point, but it's sitting in an evolutionary dead end since it doesn't share the ecosystem with the rest of Linux. Same with sailfish which worked pretty well.
For me, so Way Forward is going to be Linux on phones running xorg or Wayland so that in addition to specialized applications designed specifically for smartphones, you also get the entire catalog of Linux applications that will run on whatever architecture the phone is.
But for whatever it's worth, when I bought my first Android phone, that wasn't ready either. I think Linux is more ready now than Android was then.
At some point in the near future I would like to pick up a pine phone pro to see if additional hardware can be thrown into the problem. I tried the Nexus 5 and pine phone, and neither one of them can really drive the software well enough.
I will say that there are some non-standard forms of Linux that are much closer. The Ubuntu phone is basically usable at this point, but it's sitting in an evolutionary dead end since it doesn't share the ecosystem with the rest of Linux. Same with sailfish which worked pretty well.
For me, so Way Forward is going to be Linux on phones running xorg or Wayland so that in addition to specialized applications designed specifically for smartphones, you also get the entire catalog of Linux applications that will run on whatever architecture the phone is.
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@survey Do you think Android is usable in its current form on mobile phones?