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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Droidian – Debian for Android devices [2023] (blog.tomaszdunia.pl)

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[–] hellofriend@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

If you want Linux apps on your phone, wouldn't you have to have a compat layer a la WINE except that it's for x86->ARM rather than Windows->Linux? Wouldn't that make using Linux apps unattractive due to the overhead slowing them down? Plus, wouldn't devs have to implement a mobile mode for GUI apps for this to be a good UX? Not trying to bash the idea, just curious about how it would practically work.

[–] poVoq@slrpnk.net 4 points 3 months ago

No, why? Normal open-source Linux apps can be just compiled for ARM and most larger distros have ARM versions with pre-compiled ARM repositories. Newer Linux apps are also already responsive and usually work reasonably well on smaller screens and touchscreens, although some further improvements in that regard could be made.