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I Installed Ubuntu Touch on My Phone in 2026 — Should You? (youtube.com)
submitted 8 months ago by to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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[–] 13 points 8 months ago (5 children)

I'd gladly replace Android with any flavor of Linux whenever possible. But the phone and TV set top industries make it difficult/impossible. And the next barrier is whether my family could operate these without patience for bugs and missing features.

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    I don't see why you'd need to run pure Linux over Android. Android phones at their core are a Java app running under Linux. There were even lawsuits because Android was originally a Java app.

    Working on the open Android projects seems more productive.

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  • [–] 8 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    Android is a Google project, you'll always keep fighting your upstream.

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    It would be a hard fork which Google is forcing anyway. That's the path Graphene is taking.

    It's start with a basic working phone gui and apps and improve it (Graphene's path) or start with absolutely nothing and build everything again (Pine OS etc's path).

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