Someone replaced Android with a full Linux desktop on their old phone, and found it shockingly usable (www.xda-developers.com)

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(spoiler: only works on a very small number of devices. Still cool)

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[-] h_ramus@piefed.social 9 points 2 months ago

It'd be great to find a real alternative to the actual mobile OS duopoly. Running a Linux distribution on a phone makes sense. They already power most computing devices on the planet. The year of the Linux phone may arrive sooner than the Linux desktop!

[-] naeap@sopuli.xyz 3 points 2 months ago

I've pre-ordered the new Jolla with Sailfish OS
Haven't heard much about it since then, but I'm still having my hopes up ...

[-] Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 1 points 2 months ago

Well said, and I think you're right.

Being such a focused use-case helps mitigate the challenge of crazy flexibility.

Once people start making apps specifically for the phone environment it'll really help.

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