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How many of you run a Linux phone (Pine64, Librem etc) as your daily driver? (lemmy.world)
submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by MigratingtoLemmy@lemmy.world to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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I was going through Pine64's page again after I found the latest KDE announcement. With that said, I seem to see a lot of issues with firmware on the Pine, whilst the Librem is just plain out of budget for me. Was interested in how many people here run a Linux mobile as a daily driver, and how has your experience been?

I'm considering purchasing the Pine but I'd like a better screen, more RAM and a better CPU. Don't know if I should wait for a new model to be released (are they even planning to do that? Is the company active?). I will only really use it to browse the Web, and might even look to desolder a couple of parts that I know I won't use.

Thanks.

Edit: I am willing to watch content and use banking apps from the browser. Do you think it'll be fit for me?

Edit 2: overall, I am much saddened about the state of affairs regarding private computing on the go. I desperately hope that Linux on mobile takes off, even though its incubation looks disheartening at the moment. Thank you everyone for your comments.

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[–] rufus@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Forget the pinephone as a daily driver. It is nice to play around with and having linux on your phone is awesome. But you can't really use it as a daily driver. You'll try it and it's going to end up in the drawer of unfinished projects. Trust me, I own a pinephone and I know other people who do.

There's nothing wrong with it. Just like 50 mild annoyances with anything you're trying to do with it and on top it's super slow, compared to any other smartphone.

As I read, the phone by Purism isn't much better and it's really expensive.

[–] pathief@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I'd love to run a system without Google but it's hard. I tried to run LineageOS with microg for a week or two but eventually had to install Google Play Services. Lots of hurdles with push notifications and unfortunately some apps really refused to work when they detected no play services installed. It really sadden me, to be honest. Really wanted to make it work.

Never gave Linux phones a chance, I rely too much on apps that wouldn't be available.

[–] atlasraven31@lemm.ee 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Nope. I would like to but as long as android does an okay job I will stick with that.

[–] Waluigis_Talking_Buttplug@lemmy.world 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Yeah Linux phone is a pipedream as long as Android works well at all.

The fact that you can use Termux kind of makes Linux phones moot, especially since you need a very specific set of hardware

[–] xarexyouxmadx@lemmy.world 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I looked into this for myself but I was told a lot of what has already been said here and decided to go with a pixel + graphene OS .

I'm probably sticking with this type of setup until there's a proper Linux phone that can be easily used as a daily driver.

I think the key is patience. One day I think we'll have something that will be able to daily drive Linux that won't feel like you're using the alpha release of android.

[–] Pantherina@feddit.de 1 points 11 months ago

I mean GrapheneOS is probably the most secure OS on the planet and also privacy friendly. Android is annoying sometimes but its pretty okay and the security standards are veeery high

[–] anarchotaoist@links.hackliberty.org -1 points 11 months ago

Does anyone use the Oneplus 6T? It is suppose to be the most powerful hardware that can run Postmarket or Ubuntu Touch.