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Should I install Linux on my smartphone? (lemmy.ca)
submitted 1 year ago by KseniyaK@lemmy.ca to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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I have a Samsung Galaxy J3 (2018) smartphone which currently has the stock Samsung Android OS installed on it. I wanted to install an Android "distro" that doesn't spy on me, like Graphene OS, but I couldn't find a ROM for it. Since I would probably need to compile AOSP from source code anyways, I though, why not install Gentoo on my smartphone (doing the compilation on a more powerful computer using distcc). I have already installed Gentoo on both my laptop and desktop from a stage3 tarball and I'm loving it, so I guess doing the same on my smartphone wouldn't be too hard.

Now, the problem is that I need to use a few apps that are not available on Linux, like the proprietary app that I use to pay for my bus tickets. How well does waydroid work?

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[-] Shatur@lemmy.ml 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I daily drive GNU/Linux on my Phone (PinePhone Pro), I would say it usable, but Android is way more practical.

Also not a lot of devices can run GNU/Linux and have fully functional HW due to missing drivers. And only 3 phones of them can run mainline kernel.

Waydroid works fine, I use it for banking apps, but it's a bit slow on my specific device.

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