Linux Phones

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Community about running GNU/Linux on phones. Projects like Ubuntu Touch, Plasma Mobile, PostmarketOS, Mobian etc. Either on former Android phones or hardware like the PinePhone.

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can an average person use a linux phone? (mindly.social)

submitted 1 year ago by duckweed@mindly.social to c/linuxphones@lemmy.ml

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can an average person use a linux phone?

@linuxphones

I've been reading some articles about mobile Linux and many of them state one must be an "advanced user" or that the software isn't secure. How true is this?

I already use Linux on my laptop, but I'm not a software developer or anything like that. Would I be able to slap a new OS onto an old Android phone and be on my way, or would I run into problems?

#MobileLinux #Linux #LinuxPhone #FOSS

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[–] Scorpion8741@mastodon.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@duckweed @linuxphones

Btw GrapheneOS and other Android OS's run with the Linux kernel, so technically they are Linux even though they aren't called this way.

[–] didek@101010.pl 1 points 1 year ago

@Scorpion8741 @duckweed @linuxphones

When we talk about Linux, we usually are talking about full GNU/Linux system. And Android/AOSP is not that at all.