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>> Add tools that let me see what my phone is doing behind the scenes. >Everything is open source. You have all the power to study what your phone is doing. S
by tpxl 6y ago
>> Add tools that let me see what my phone is doing behind the scenes.
>Everything is open source. You have all the power to study what your phone is doing. Standard GNU/Linux tools should work.
Yes, for the base system, however for third-party stuff, it would still be nice to prevent the apps from phoning home and stuff.
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- fsflover 6y agoBut how do you already do it on GNU/Linux? You can do the same.
- tpxl 6y agoOf course you can, but is it obvious and user friendly?
- entropicdrifter 6y agoLinux phones are never going to be especially obvious or user friendly. To get those types of features you need a boatload of investment that the open source community can't hope to muster in any sort of reasonable timeframe. For now the choice is privacy vs user friendliness. Currently rooted/de-Googled Android provides one of the best compromises for the average privacy-minded power user, but maybe in a few more years these Linux phones will be mature enough to give Android more of a run for their money.
- zozbot234 6y ago> To get those types of features you need a boatload of investment that the open source community can't hope to muster in any sort of reasonable timeframe. The Linux desktop is an obvious counterexample. If the open source community can develop user-friendly desktop environments (GNOME, KDE Plasma, Xfce) they can surely develop user-friendly mobile stacks.