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sure, and for the iphone crowd i wouldnt recommend it
I’m the using desktop Linux for decades crowd, and it’s not good enough to replace Android on my phone.
phone makes phone calls, camera does camera things
See my previous comment. The camera does not do camera things, even after I fixed the permissions problem for /dev/video* that produced the initial error message. It’s a bit like the experience of trying to run Linux on a laptop (other than a Thinkpad) 20 years ago.
what exactly do you need?
Bare minimum:
A camera. Doesn’t need to be good, does need to take pictures that roughly convey reality.
Signal. This is my main means of (tele)communicating with people important to me. There’s Flare, but that needs to pair with a device running the official client (or maybe a fork).
Whatsapp. I don’t love it, but it’s hard to avoid.
A web browser and mail client PostmarketOS Nura has passible options there.
A VOIP solution for a USA phone number that can do calls and SMS. I use Google Voice now because it’s free; I might pay a small amount for an alternative.
Turn by turn navigation for car and bicycle.
Some things might work on Waydroid, which pretty much runs LineageOS in a VM. It was fussy last I looked at it, and that suggests the obvious option of running LineageOS on hardware, which I do.
hardware keeps getting more hostile towards [GrapheneOS]
They recently announced a partnership with Motorola.
It’s likely I could find a solution or a workaround to most of bare minimum categories if I worked at it for a while. Then I’d have a kind of usable, laggy phone with terrible battery life instead of the decent experience I currently have with LineageOS. Why would I do that?
I’m the using desktop Linux for decades crowd, and it’s not good enough to replace Android on my phone.
See my previous comment. The camera does not do camera things, even after I fixed the permissions problem for
/dev/video*that produced the initial error message. It’s a bit like the experience of trying to run Linux on a laptop (other than a Thinkpad) 20 years ago.Bare minimum:
PostmarketOSNura has passible options there.Some things might work on Waydroid, which pretty much runs LineageOS in a VM. It was fussy last I looked at it, and that suggests the obvious option of running LineageOS on hardware, which I do.
They recently announced a partnership with Motorola.
ok and? my buddy literally has been daily driving one for more than a year and the camera on his pixel works fine, not a 3 though
im pretty sure he has whatsapp
i think nav is a bust will agree
and trust me im huffing the motorola copium but ive learned to be real skeptical
wont be even the 2nd time they dropped a promise this decade
It’s likely I could find a solution or a workaround to most of bare minimum categories if I worked at it for a while. Then I’d have a kind of usable, laggy phone with terrible battery life instead of the decent experience I currently have with LineageOS. Why would I do that?