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Firstly you most likely just cannot. Device support is very narrow.
But I have a phone I got secondhand just to play with it. I want to love it, but it feels dated. The gestures make using a lot of stuff hard. But the biggest thing is that in my country I can't even make calls due to no VoLTE support. Kinda kills even using it daily even as an experiment.
I did submit a pull request to add Colemak keyboard layout support to the keyboard though, which was accepted. So technically I'm a contributor :)
yea. "can you?" is a more apt question for this headline
Ubuntu Touch is still in the stages of “Wouldn’t this be nice?” Nevertheless, it would be nice to see it get some dedicated work.
It doesn’t have 2 of the biggest corporations in the world funding it. Maybe something can be done at policy level to get it up to speed. With Linux at foundation we already have like 70%. We need alternatives.
plus their iron grip control on how devices are locked down to prevent just this type of competition.
There are a few competitive devices that even come with Ubuntu Touch preinstalled.
nowhere to be found in my country though