Finally, Signal will catch up to XMPP.
Can’t wait to daily-drive a Linux phone with this.
Same here. I desperately want to exit the Android ecosystem and I have a cellphone all setup with UBPorts to do so, but the lack of native Signal client is a showstopper for me.
You can use something like signal-cli and the desktop app for basically the same thing.
The usability is nowhere near acceptable with a cellphone for daily usage with either or those options, or with the native client in Waydroid because it’s not persistent if Waydroid is closed.
Signal with anything other than the official client sucks ass. I know, I tried.
And that’s without mentioning that you still need to have the “master” Signal client running on an Android cellphone, which defeats the purpose if you want to ditch Android.
Of the desktop app? The .deb?
The desktop app on a cellphone is unusable, like all desktop apps.
Use a local Matrix bridge.
This new update will not change how the desktop app looks. They’re just copying over the code for the signup flow.
Edit: oh my brain put your and the top level comment together. Sorry.
Use a local Matrix bridge.
Not an option. You lose the ability to share photos and videos, which I do constantly with friends and family.
And it’s hellishly Rube Goldberg.
Why is it a different version
Wdym?
It seems the headline has bad wording. It’s not a new version of Signal.
Why can’t it just be a website? Is it because the desktop version plans to mine my computer?
Hegseth will leave his laptop open at the bar when he goes to take a piss.
