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Linux phones (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago by joel_feila@lemmy.world to c/linux@lemmy.ml

Anyone use one of those Linux phones like pine phone or librem.

I was looking at a few months ago but settled on a deggooled phone. Are there user friendly distros for them?

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[-] marcdw@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

Have the PinePhone and PP Pro. Partial to SailfishOS on both. It has the most smartphone feel if you will. Like with most the camera is pretty much a no go but I rarely use them anyway.

[-] sab@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Do you use the PinePhone as a daily driver, or just for tinkering?

[-] marcdw@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Just for tinkering so far. I have a habit of tossing the devices aside for long periods of time when an OS breaks badly. 😁

Technically SailfishOS handles most of the requirements to make the device a daily-driver-in-training. All but one of my Android devices are VoIP now. Getting away from carrier-based stuff (and saving money). At the moment there isn't really anything usable on the mobile linux side (SIP, calls via XMPP - I have JMP.chat numbers) that I am aware of. On SFOS that is. Though I can use movim via browser.

Guess it is time I took the devices seriously and try to use them more regularly.

Sailfish is proprietary garbage

[-] marcdw@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Except it is proprietary. The UI, Android compatibility layer, etc are proprietary

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