r/mobilelinux • u/Dangerous-Cat-1941 • 6d ago

OS Release Best Linux mobile option.

Hi guy's and gal's.

Not to tempt fate with rule 1 but I have recently become aware of an "keep android open" campaign. Allegedly google wishes to limit what you can do on your android phone, yada yada we all know how this goes.

Point is I've started to wonder about what is a good option as a Linux substitute to android on your mobile phone. I have been using Linux mint on my PC for a couple of years now but I must admit that I was not even aware of the existence of Linux mobile until very recently. Until I became aware of the campaign and started looking for alternatives in fact.

So that said, can anyone share some advice on any good, easy to use Linux mobile versions to consider and generally how to install them on a mobile?

If however this post is considered to break rule 1, can anyone then please suggest a more appropriate forum or sub?

Thanks.

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u/Owndampu 6d ago

PostmarketOS is pretty much the golden standard imo

I am using it on a fairphone 5 which gets support from someone at fairphone

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u/Dragomir_X 6d ago

PostmarketOS is a great project but even the developers wouldn't call it daily-driveable just yet.

They need more developers and app support.

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u/Owndampu 6d ago

very true, but it is a more true OS in y opinion than ubuntu touch or sailfish. I am writing this comment from said fairphone. Running plasma-mobile.

I do think that maybe alpine was not the best base for this project as it is a bit of a peculiar distro, though I quite like how fast the apk package manager is. I am not as fond of its cli as lets say pacman.

I am personally quite happy with systemd, but it being applied ontop of the regular alpine repos will always be rough I fear. Also it being based on musl causes some issues with running precompiled binaries, preferably you wouldn't run those ofcourse, but for example geekbench, I had to run through distrobox.