I replaced Android with a full Linux desktop on my old phone, and it's shockingly usable
www.xda-developers.com
Pocketblue, based on Fedora Atomic, is great on the OnePlus 6.

(spoiler: only works on a very small number of devices. Still cool)

  • H Ramus@piefed.socialEnglish
    91·
    9 days ago

    It’d be great to find a real alternative to the actual mobile OS duopoly. Running a Linux distribution on a phone makes sense. They already power most computing devices on the planet. The year of the Linux phone may arrive sooner than the Linux desktop!

    • naeap@sopuli.xyz
      3·
      9 days ago

      I’ve pre-ordered the new Jolla with Sailfish OS
      Haven’t heard much about it since then, but I’m still having my hopes up …

    • Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafeEnglish
      1·
      9 days ago

      Well said, and I think you’re right.

      Being such a focused use-case helps mitigate the challenge of crazy flexibility.

      Once people start making apps specifically for the phone environment it’ll really help.