Interested in hearing everyone’s experience using alternative phone OS’s. Have you ever used Lineage or Graphene, Pursim, pinephone? Was it good enough to replace your android/iphone?

  • @sparkingcircuit
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    I used an experimental version of Ubuntu touch on a pine phone roughly three years ago. It was slow due to the limited hardware of what was essentially a development device, but besides the occasional dropped call it worked well (if a bit unstable). It has been a few years however, so I imagine the situation he improved sense then. It was good enough to replace my Android phone, that is, a device used for text, call, email, podcasts, and locally downloaded video.

    • ash! [she/her]
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      11 months ago

      You are the first person I know to have used Ubuntu Touch lol

    • 🏳️‍⚧️ Elara ☭
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      611 months ago

      I tried Ubuntu Touch and really liked the interface, but it used a really old version of Ubuntu that I really didn’t want to deal with so now I use Phosh on Arch.

      • @sparkingcircuit
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        511 months ago

        They just recently re-based it to a newer version of Ubuntu under the hood.

        • 🏳️‍⚧️ Elara ☭
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          611 months ago

          Yeah, I saw that, but I’d prefer a rolling release. I might try it though and see how much I like it. Maybe I can get the DE running on Arch with some work.

          • @sparkingcircuit
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            511 months ago

            That would be interesting. I’ve personally always preferred more standard release structures.