• toastal@lemmy.mlEnglish
      14·
      1 year ago

      Nothing would make me more happy. I really wish it weren’t such a pain to deal with the telephony. You check devices on postmarketOS & while some devices can boot, it’s usually the actual phone part that isn’t working–which is kind of an important part. The open hardware phones work fine, but their specs are ancient while being as expensive as flagships. I still have eventual hope tho as device needs have started to plateau.

  • the_q@lemmy.world
    37·
    1 year ago

    Imagine a full Linux desktop experience while plugged into a monitor and then a mobile experience on the go. That’s the dream.

    • ikidd@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      You can get this with a Pinephone and a USB-C dock. Both experiences leave a lot to be desired, but it’s there.

      • Gecko@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        As someone who owns a PinePhone I can tell you that a lot more work needs to be done first. postmarketOS is ok but being Alpine based means you have to forever deal with all the issues that come with it including its primitive package manager. And mobian also kept breaking ever other half a year or so requiring manual config changes etc.

        What we need IMO, is a more reliable spin like Fedora, maybe even something immutable like Silverblue to ensure the stability required for a daily driver device while also being quick to deploy the latest versions of releases.

        There’s also the whole app ecosystem aspect but between advances in Waydroid and convergent GTK apps, I’m more concerned about the underlying base OS than the app ecosystem ^^

    • aluminium@lemmy.world
      31·
      1 year ago

      Samsung offered this for a short while with Linux on Dex. You could easily run a lightweight Ubuntu Desktop container when plugged in. Sadly they removed it after a few months.

      • LoganXan@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        What are you saying they removed here? I’m using Dex with a Z Fold4 as I type this. Don’t even have a laptop or desktop anymore. All I ever need is my phone nowadays.

  • MigratingtoLemmy@lemmy.world
    163·
    1 year ago

    I would love to be able to use a Linux mobile as my primary but I know that’s not going to happen, unfortunately.

  • Piwix@lemm.ee
    4·
    1 year ago

    Love the look of this, would love to be able to use this on my current phone