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   Miakoda (hellomiakoda@pdx.social)'s status on Wednesday, 12-Feb-2025 16:59:29 JST Miakoda

   Linux mobile is a bit of a learning curve.

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     Miakoda (hellomiakoda@pdx.social)'s status on Thursday, 13-Feb-2025 12:38:30 JST Miakoda

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     • Ramin Honary

     @ramin_hal9001 Only distro for this one so far is FuriOS.
     I had some keyring issues. The big problem is the lack of Linux Mobile apps. But, FuriOS has an easy to use Android container.
     GPS apps on Linux Mobile are sorely lacking... it came with one, but it sucks. Finding an address is just attrocious. Hopefully, HereWeGo in the android contianer won't have any major issues.

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     Ramin Honary (ramin_hal9001@fe.disroot.org)'s status on Thursday, 13-Feb-2025 12:38:31 JST Ramin Honary

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     Linux mobile is a bit of a learning curve.

     @hellomiakoda I just bought FairPhone5 (still shipping), and it has the default Android build, but it is supposed to be carrier unlocked, so I was thinking of installing something like Mobian, /e/OS, Postmarket, or Lineage. I don’t know if Linux or de-Googled Android would be better, but I am guessing it would probably be a lot easier to find drivers for de-Googled Android.

     What are some of the difficulties you have had with Linux mobile, and do you have a favorite distro?

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     Miakoda (hellomiakoda@pdx.social)'s status on Thursday, 13-Feb-2025 14:03:01 JST Miakoda

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     • Ramin Honary

     @ramin_hal9001
     I figurer the android features (and I think it can be flashed to android entirely) make it a good transitional phone.
     Assuming Linux mobile gets better, when this one eventually dies, I can get one that is 100% Linux.

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     Ramin Honary (ramin_hal9001@fe.disroot.org)'s status on Thursday, 13-Feb-2025 14:03:03 JST Ramin Honary

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     @hellomiakoda I see.

     Yeah, I was considering getting the FLX1 because it has such good specs at a good price point. But I decided I didn’t really need high specs so much as I needed repairability, so I went with the FairPhone instead.

     Apparently, FLX1 is Droidian, which as I understand it, is a Debian (Mobian) userland and package manager running on top of an Android kernel with Android proprietary drivers and (like you said) the Android runtime containers for apps from FDroid and the Google Play Store.

     I wish I could try a few distros, but I am only going to have one Fairphone and I don’t want to accidentally brick it or otherwise fuck around with it too much since it is going to be my daily driver and I can’t go without a phone, so I don’t want to switch the OS more than once.