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That was my first thought. What does a linux phone offer a user (feature/usage-wise!) that my jailbroken iphone didn't? ...back when I felt the need to jailbre
by harrisonjackson 6y ago
That was my first thought. What does a linux phone offer a user (feature/usage-wise!) that my jailbroken iphone didn't?
...back when I felt the need to jailbreak at least - now with altstore, ios improvements, or my own dev-ish - I am good.
- pogo99 6y agoIt allows me to run any linux desktop program, which includes programs that can be run with wine, anbox or even a virtual machine. If it's fast enough i wouldn't need a PC at all. So I would say that is the long term goal: convergence. Linux has a major advantage over other operating systems in this regard.
- asddubs 6y agowine alone wouldn't allow you to run x86 apps
- pogo99 6y agoI suppose you would have to use qemu userspace emulation at least.
- heavyset_go 6y agoThere's definitely a way to use Wine along with binfmt_misc to run x86 apps on ARM or other architectures. edit: Hangover lets you run x86 programs via Wine on ARM platforms: https://github.com/AndreRH/hangover https://github.com/AndreRH/hangover
- swiley 6y agoMost of those need apps re-signed all the time and can't do push notifications. iSH almost looks usable and then you try compiling something or cloning a git repo and your iphone will get hotter than a pinephone watching youtube (and whatever you do can be fairly precisely measured in ~15 minute increments because it takes ages.)