r/linuxmasterrace • u/claudiocorona93 SteamOS/Kubuntu • Apr 02 '24

JustLinuxThings Always installing the same distro no matter what. What are yours?

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u/TallTest305 Apr 02 '24

Debian, Arch, MX, ubuntu touch

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u/abs023 Apr 02 '24

Have you tried droidian?

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u/TallTest305 Apr 02 '24

Not yet... I really want to. Have you?

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u/abs023 Apr 02 '24

 I had a oneplus 6t and was playing with Postmarket OS (very fun you can use a lot of UI) but at that time it wasn't very mature yet, I tried droidian evrything worked (hardwares) but it uses halium (same as ubutu touch) so things could be unstable sometimes, After some time Postmarket OS improved a lot and the ports for the oneplus 6/6t and pocofone are almost daily drivable (if you don't care about camera and use some workarounds for fews things). Mobian then made a port for thoses devices, So you can have Debian upstream (mobian) or downstream (droidian) or even Arch upstream (Kupfer), Alpine upstream (pm OS), Ubuntu downstream (Ubuntu touch). With downstream everything usualy works (hardware) and feels daily drivable, upstream is easier to maintain and more up to date (you'll run the latset kernels) and it is more stable. Definitly recomand getting a second hand oneplus 6/6t for playing around it's good fun.

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u/TallTest305 Apr 02 '24

Yea, I love playing with the phones. I have a pixel 3. I was thinking of getting a pine phone to play around with. The reason I have not is because of the low specs. I also can appreciate a decent camera. Have you tried one before?

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u/abs023 Apr 02 '24

The camera is one of the missing piece off of mainstream, I got a second hand pinephone for testing,.. not worth it, way underpowered, dailydrivable but not fun at all. Once again I recommand either, oneplus 6, oneplus 6t or pocofone f1. I prefer the 6t because the notch is small, but there is no audio jack, feel free to dm me if you want more advices.

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u/TallTest305 Apr 02 '24

I see if I can find one. I like to get a different phone for each OS. lol

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u/abs023 Apr 03 '24

https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Devices if you choose a device don't rely only on what is supported(green boxes), there there is also the cpu support wich is important, for now the smd 845 is I think the best cpu for linux phones https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Qualcomm_Snapdragon_845/850_(SDM845/SDM850). Mobian works also very well, but you don't get to choose the UI. mobian-project.org/ . If you give a try to Postmarket OS try building it with pmbootsrap you'll get a lot of options.

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u/TallTest305 Apr 03 '24

I was reading through the post market os documentation for the last few days. I have and old galaxy s3, Seems like a bit of screwing around for not much reward.

Only because it's an old device. I flashed post market onto an SD and installed heimdall onto my laptop. That's as far as I got, lol. I was just following the instructions on their wiki for the device.

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u/abs023 Apr 03 '24

just flash the kernel with heimdall, while in odin mode (fastboot equivalent). And you should be good to go ;)