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Linux phones (self.linux)

submitted 1 year ago by joel_feila to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

All things you mentioned are hardware issues. [...] Because no one will buy an expensive GNU/Linux phone.

There's a difference between budget or low end components and flawed implementation or design. I didn't go in expecting a newer Snapdragon and a 144hz display- but neither did I go in expecting that it couldn't charge when dead. I didn't go to Denny's expecting filet mignon, but neither was I expecting a dirty tennis shoe on a plate. That was the whole point of my comment. The last thing mobile Linux needs is for people's first experience of it to be a semi-functional piece of hacked-together hardware- even if someone's willing to deal with in-dev software, when the thing straight up won't work it's not a good look.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

All things you mentioned are hardware issues

Oh, I'm so sorry, I wanted to write "software". Edited. For example, charging when the phone is dead will be fixed soon with proper bootloader, megi already submitted patches to u-boot. It will also reduce power consumption in suspend.