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The world needs Linux phones badly but development is way, way behind what I assumed
Driver support needs to be done separately for each device, so it’s a moving target. Work on Fairphone 6, a pretty new device, seems to be progressing well.
As far as I can tell Ubuntu Touch, Sailfish and postmarketOS are all daily driver ready. In pmOS you typically have the choice between GNOME and KDE, both of which seem to have their fans, meaning there are at least four relatively mature mobile desktop environments.
The biggest problem as far as I can see is app support, which is not a problem of Linux phone development but of monopolistic and/or careless third parties. And even for that Android emulation seems to have gotten pretty good.
I’m not sure what you assumed and how it fails to align with reality, but Linux phones have had camera support a long time. It’s just that it needs to be added separately for each device, each time by unpaid hackers who bought the devices for their own money.
ik this is probably gonna be frowned upon, but would it be possible to make these cameras available inside waydroid then run GCam inside it? maybe that’ll produce pretty good images
Hilarious that this is noteworthy
Yes.
All other software that just appears out of thin air, feature complete and bug free.
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Name one, just one, other current phone with almost complete Linux support.
I’m not really holding my breath though.Vollaphone ships multiple phones with Ubuntu Touch, is currently being produced and sold.
The problem is app support more than core OS functionality however.
Yeah, that’s why Jolla provides an interesting middle ground.
It’s Linux, but not FOSS, yet increases usability by being able to run Android apps.
