Does anybody use Ubuntu Touch as their daily driver? If not what other OS could you recommend.
Im looking to de googlefy as much as I can and also looking to have more freedom with what I can / cannot do with my own phone.
I have a fairphone 5, graphene isn’t supported and I don’t think I want /e/os.
Open to suggestions however I won’t be able to change hardware.
Calyx seems to be the best option for you. https://calyxos.org/ Next time you buy a phone (and live in the EU), you may consider Volla. It’s degoogled Android by default and dual-bootable with an SD card, so yo can try other OSes while keeping your daily driver.
I wish I could use it but I can’t. The folks developing UT are awesome but they are a very small group of unpaid volunteers and this stuff is painfully difficult to do.
One of the biggest problems is the lack of VoLTE support for making actual phone calls on most phones. Last I looked (which was admittedly more than a month ago) only a few models supported it, and it is the only supported mobile voice protocol in several countries. You can work around this with a SIP (Voice over IP) account and some geekery but it’s not ideal.
Another issue is very limited software. There just aren’t that many developers creating software for the platform.
I ended up on /e/.
Thank you!
Why not just pure lineage os?
Assume i know next to nothing. Why would it be a good choice in your opinion? Better / worse than Ubuntu?
LineageOs is basically android without google. You can install the google stuff if you want it, or use open source alternatives like microg. F-droid replaces Google play. It gives you access to all the open source apps that do the stuff you do.
Ubuntu touch is more of a full Linux distro that has been optimized for a phone. It works. Mostly things function, but it is limited. Not a lot of support for mobile type apps.
I’ve used both on a few phones. I daily use lineages. I don’t think Ubuntu is ready for daily use yet. I think with lineages, you could install it get it set up in a few hours. Take a week to find apps to replace the ones your used to. And you would not really notice that your on lineageOS.
My recommendations is to just install f-droid now and start using open source apps instead of whatever you are using. Slowly eliminate all the apps from google play. Take a month to see if you can live without google. If you can, switch to lineageOS. If not, at least you learned something.
Thanks. That’s really helpful.
Already using F droid (have been for a couple of months now) and OS was the next step I was thinking off.
I’m very experienced with desktop Linux, and I recently installed PostmarketOS on an older phone. It and Ubuntu Touch are derived from traditional desktop Linux and have the potential to run the same apps.
It’s not there yet for people asking questions like the ones you are. I wouldn’t even say it’s there yet for people like me as a primary phone. The set of apps designed for mobile is minimal and not necessarily feature-complete. Hardware support is partial on most supported phones. Apps not specifically designed for a phone screen are not a good experience at all. Sometimes parts of the OS crash.
LineageOS, on the other hand is Android. It’s designed for phones, and it will work pretty much like the Android your phone came with. It does not come with Google apps and services by default, which reduces the selection of third-party apps that work out of the box. You can add MicroG for an open source implementation of most of those Google services, which will make most third-party apps work while still keeping your phone Google-free.
Thankyou!
Ig the best thing is its Not canonical
What’s wrong with canonical?
It has its Reputation as being linux microsoft
Just off the top of my head, they had hired a registered sex offender (sexual battery of a child) and didn’t warn any other employees about it. It didn’t come to light until he defaced another open source project’s wiki. The normal annoyances seem minor by comparison to that which are snap and (was) unity desktop, but unity hasn’t been a thing for a while.
Well, it’s android so it has a much better app support, better UI, it’s more stable and it’s more familiar than Linux on phones
I’ve hears good things about postmarket.
Doesn’t look great for my hardware:
Audio See the dedicated page on this topic for a write-up of the current state of development. Help welcome!
Status : Broken
No internal speakers or microphones are currently working. You can get all sounds (except call audio) via Bluetooth or USB peripherals, or through HDMI/DP (via USB-C dongle).
Darn, too bad.
What about calyx?
Ah, well. That’s some news. Guess I’ll keep an eye out in about 6 months to see how they’re doing. Glad I didn’t switch to them.
Why not /e/?
Tried it a long time ago and had multiple issues however I was running it on an unsupported device so likely a ‘me’ problem.
Could consider it again, why would you recommend it?
I use it on a fp 4. I’ve never had any problems other than the ones I create for myself
I used /e/ as a daily driver before. It’s stable.
