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Does anybody use Ubuntu Touch as their daily driver? If not, what other...... (feddit.uk)
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Does anybody use Ubuntu Touch as their daily driver? If not what other OS could you recommend.

Im looking to de googlefy as much as I can and also looking to have more freedom with what I can / cannot do with my own phone.

I have a fairphone 5, graphene isn't supported and I don't think I want /e/os.

Open to suggestions however I won't be able to change hardware.

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[โ€“] anime_ted@lemmy.world 14 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

I wish I could use it but I can't. The folks developing UT are awesome but they are a very small group of unpaid volunteers and this stuff is painfully difficult to do.

One of the biggest problems is the lack of VoLTE support for making actual phone calls on most phones. Last I looked (which was admittedly more than a month ago) only a few models supported it, and it is the only supported mobile voice protocol in several countries. You can work around this with a SIP (Voice over IP) account and some geekery but it's not ideal.

Another issue is very limited software. There just aren't that many developers creating software for the platform.

I ended up on /e/.

[โ€“] Technoworcester@feddit.uk 4 points 10 hours ago

Thank you!

[โ€“] ByteMe@lemmy.world 8 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Why not just pure lineage os?

[โ€“] Technoworcester@feddit.uk 6 points 11 hours ago (3 children)

Assume i know next to nothing. Why would it be a good choice in your opinion? Better / worse than Ubuntu?

[โ€“] Zak@lemmy.world 8 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (1 children)

I'm very experienced with desktop Linux, and I recently installed PostmarketOS on an older phone. It and Ubuntu Touch are derived from traditional desktop Linux and have the potential to run the same apps.

It's not there yet for people asking questions like the ones you are. I wouldn't even say it's there yet for people like me as a primary phone. The set of apps designed for mobile is minimal and not necessarily feature-complete. Hardware support is partial on most supported phones. Apps not specifically designed for a phone screen are not a good experience at all. Sometimes parts of the OS crash.

LineageOS, on the other hand is Android. It's designed for phones, and it will work pretty much like the Android your phone came with. It does not come with Google apps and services by default, which reduces the selection of third-party apps that work out of the box. You can add MicroG for an open source implementation of most of those Google services, which will make most third-party apps work while still keeping your phone Google-free.

[โ€“] Technoworcester@feddit.uk 2 points 10 hours ago

Thankyou!

[โ€“] orochi02@feddit.org 4 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Ig the best thing is its Not canonical

[โ€“] ByteMe@lemmy.world 3 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

What's wrong with canonical?

[โ€“] orochi02@feddit.org 1 points 1 hour ago

It has its Reputation as being linux microsoft

[โ€“] sorghum@sh.itjust.works 3 points 10 hours ago

Just off the top of my head, they had hired a registered sex offender (sexual battery of a child) and didn't warn any other employees about it. It didn't come to light until he defaced another open source project's wiki. The normal annoyances seem minor by comparison to that which are snap and (was) unity desktop, but unity hasn't been a thing for a while.

[โ€“] ByteMe@lemmy.world 3 points 11 hours ago

Well, it's android so it has a much better app support, better UI, it's more stable and it's more familiar than Linux on phones

[โ€“] black_flag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (1 children)

I've heard good things about postmarket.

[โ€“] Technoworcester@feddit.uk 2 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

Doesn't look great for my hardware:

Audio See the dedicated page on this topic for a write-up of the current state of development. Help welcome!

Status : Broken

No internal speakers or microphones are currently working. You can get all sounds (except call audio) via Bluetooth or USB peripherals, or through HDMI/DP (via USB-C dongle).

[โ€“] black_flag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 9 hours ago

Darn, too bad.

[โ€“] wuphysics87@lemmy.ml 3 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Why not /e/?

[โ€“] Technoworcester@feddit.uk 3 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

Tried it a long time ago and had multiple issues however I was running it on an unsupported device so likely a 'me' problem.

Could consider it again, why would you recommend it?

[โ€“] racketlauncher831@lemmy.ml 3 points 11 hours ago

I used /e/ as a daily driver before. It's stable.

[โ€“] wuphysics87@lemmy.ml 2 points 10 hours ago

I use it on a fp 4. I've never had any problems other than the ones I create for myself