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I am disappointed we still don't have a solid FOSS smartphone OS that can compete with the 2 monopolies who have cornered the market.
I don"t want ro sell my soul to Google or Apple just to use my bank (even on my computer thanks to mandatory 2fa apps) or to renew my government issued ID or to buy a train ticket on European public transport.
Jolla was a massive disappointment. As was the M$ buyout of Nokia.
What’s wrong with Jolla?
Failure to deliver their tablet in 2016, in a big way. They're trying to do a phone now, it's going better - but that's not saying that it's going well...
Ah, I see. That makes sense. I don't actually know that much about them, other than that the Commodore phone uses Sailfish.
postmarketOS, LineageOS, GrapheneOS?
I know they have limited hardware support but that's only a matter of involvement at the end of the day
Unfortunately only postmarket is actual Linux os from these and it's far from daily driveable, lineage and graphene are android roms and are therefore dependent on Google's decisions with AOSP.
Out of curiosity, what about PostmarketOS is not daily driveable? Postmarket is a vague umbrella OS with a lot of DE options, all of which have vastly different user experiences. KDE mobile, phosh, and GNOME mobile have all come a long way and provide everything a smartphone OS needs. The only thing I’d argue that could prevent daily driving is lack of app support and lack of good mobile Linux hardware, but that’s not PostmarketOS’s problem.
Mainly in terms of firmware for actual phones, taking photos is basically impossible as the photos either look horrible or don't work at all. Frequent sound issues, lower battery life, unreliable mobile network connection and lack of inbuilt esim support. OSes based on halium have better experience though they do still lack the app support.
have you tried it on a real device? maybe this is a hardware support issue, but no matter which DE i use (be it phosh, plasma mobile, gnome, ..) it was extremely buggy and mostly unusable. battery drained like crazy, calls didn't work properly, the list goes on. to be fair this was on a poco f1 and lg k10, which aren't in main or community though..
my daily driver is a 2013 phone with custom rom and i've daily'ed a self ported ubports phone in the past, my level of tolerance for buggy experience in daily driver phones is very likely much lower than others
Yeah, device support is the biggest issue. But the OS as a whole is pretty good. I used it with a OnePlus 6T and a Nothing Phone 1, both of which have pretty decent support. Some things about it were broken, and I didn’t try putting in a SIM card and making calls or texts, but the overall experience was good. I have high hopes for when we eventually get good “flagship” linux mobile phones that have full PostmarketOS compatibility.
Technically AOSP also runs a Linux kernel. Lineage and Graphene are like this only for compatibility reasons, no one stops them if they decide to fork. And AOSP itself is still not that bad though
That disappointment isn't with Linux
depends on where you draw the line.
in the past, i've been mildly dissapointed by the drama-queen-esque antics of the kernel developers; but i most recently DEEPLY disappointed by how thoroughly the kernel developers to caved to the us gov't's demand to kick out russian developers instead of complying maliciously like others do.
both are separate from linux, but linux can't exist without them.