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I've tried all the major Linux phone distributions and they are almost all completely unusable for day-to-day things for me. Ubuntu Touch, PinePhone, Plasma Mob
by ddtaylor 5y ago
I've tried all the major Linux phone distributions and they are almost all completely unusable for day-to-day things for me. Ubuntu Touch, PinePhone, Plasma Mobile - they all have nice parts and bad parts but the overall thing is that none of them offer most of the things people need from their phone like third party messaging applications (Discord, WhatsApp, etc.) without janky workarounds and hacks.
- opan 5y agoYou say third party, but I think you mean proprietary. Essentially everything running on these devices is third party. Pine themselves aren't making PineChat and similar programs. Lack of support for proprietary apps is something to blame those proprietary app developers for, generally. They haven't given the people freedoms to port them. Matrix and XMPP are third party, free, and already usable on a PinePhone.