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Purism are working on a Debian phone! https://puri.sm/ https://puri.sm/ (I wish them luck...) I bought the BQ Ubuntu tablet. I hate to say it, but it's terrib
by confounded 10y ago
Purism are working on a Debian phone! https://puri.sm/ https://puri.sm/
(I wish them luck...)
I bought the BQ Ubuntu tablet. I hate to say it, but it's terrible. You have to set up a cloud account with Canonical to download or update apps (no reason given). Most of the apps are pretty bad. It's constantly pinging YouTube and news websites to show me stuff I don't care about, and can't turn off. No easy way to set up a VPN. No CalDAV, CardDAV. Difficult to imagine Shuttleworth himself using one.
Fine for watching films on airplanes, but very little else.
- CaptSpify 10y agoIs it a real linux system under the hood though? I don't care much about apps or anything, I care about being able to customize it to work how I want. terminal, cron, scripts, etc.
- confounded 10y agoTechnically yes, it's a slight variant of Ubuntu. However the packaging system out of the box doesn't allow `sudo apt-get install x` (at this point I stopped).
- jstanley 10y ago> No easy way to set up a VPN. That's not true, it's right there in the network settings. I use it. Maybe it just doesn't support the type of VPN you want to use?
- confounded 10y agoI stand corrected!