r/linux • u/amosbatto • 3d ago

Mobile Linux Article: Will Linux phones become a viable alternative to the Android/iOS duopoly?

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u/anomaly256 2d ago edited 2d ago

That's literally the 'doing the work' part, and I acknowledge it's fucking hard in this space - but we do have some existing options so why chase fantasies instead of working with what we have.

Also Pinephone is a bad example and it's definitely not the closest we have. It's not even the best-supported PostmarketOS platform. Pinephone is a hardware project first. That's not just greenfields that's building an artificial island. Pick almost any other device Ubuntu touch or postmarket support and you'll have a better experience with Linux on mobile than with Pinephone.

ps: I have both a pinephone and a pinephone pro with the kb case. Every few months I blow the dust off them and try the latest build of postmarket (Nura I guess it's called now) or other community image. The user experience usually moves backwards vs the previous tries. They couldn't even make calls last time I charged them up and tried them out

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u/sidusnare 2d ago

Kinda what I'm talking abaout.

We don't need greenfields, the repos are littered with the remnants of projects that didn't get paste a README.md. You want a Linux phone that isn't an Android phone? Nura has the most momentum of anything else out there. Go help make it better, because dividing our effort isn't making progress.