• TheBiGuy@reddthat.com
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      1 year ago

      This! I used Ubuntu Touch as my daily driver for 1 1/2 years. The OS itself was anything but perfect but the real problem was definetly the app ecosystem. WayDroid(an android “emulator”) optimization is probably the way to go for linux on mobile

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        1 year ago

        Yeah there’s no way a viable Linux phone could be made without the ability to run Android apps.

        I think we’re probably at least a few years away from being able to daily drive Linux on modern phones with functioning things like NFC payments and a decent native app collection. It’s definitely coming but it has far less momentum than even the Linux desktop does.

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          1 year ago

          That’s the case with almost all FOSS projects at the beginning

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      1 year ago

      Waydroid could fix that gap tho, the same way Wine/Proton does on the desktop