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Linux phones (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago by joel_feila@lemmy.world to c/linux@lemmy.ml

Anyone use one of those Linux phones like pine phone or librem.

I was looking at a few months ago but settled on a deggooled phone. Are there user friendly distros for them?

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[-] js10@reddthat.com 8 points 1 year ago

I started daily driving a PinePhone with Mobian over two years ago, upgraded to a PinePhonePro when they first came out, and then I finally got my Librem5 about a month ago. They have come a long way. The core functions you'd expect from a phone work; calls, texts (SMS and MMS), camera (pictures and video), email, web browsing, all that works perfectly fine on my Librem5. However, I understand they are not for everyone. While there are things like twitter and mastodon clients for Linux you are not going to get a banking app for a Linux phone (for example). I just use the browser for those kinds of things though.

[-] Gecko@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago

How was your experience with Mobian? I had my install break like 3 different times with barely any usage / installing packages.

[-] js10@reddthat.com 1 points 1 year ago

I've had a great experience with Mobian. It's been a while since I distro-hopped for mobile OS's but Mobian seems to be the most stable for me.

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