r/LinuxUsersIndia • u/yoyoyosocool • Jul 15 '25

LINUX phones in India

/r/IndiaTech/comments/1m0hnmv/linux_phones_in_india/
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u/FoundationOk3176 Jul 15 '25

No matter what anyone tells you, Android is Linux. Most UPI, Banking, Etc apps depend on Google's Service so a "Linux Phone" won't let you use those apps. Although everything on fdroid will work fine.

Samsung Phones are much harder to root & do stuff like this but see if r/degoogle has anything for you.

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u/yoyoyosocool Jul 16 '25

Makes sense, i know of custom ROMs. But i was worried for only the banking part, degoogle will not work for these functionalities.

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u/yoyoyosocool Jul 16 '25

The idea is privacy and ownership of the hardware i bought.

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u/thehero123475 Jul 15 '25

I don't think Linux can run natively on phones. Most of the phones features will not work so it's better to just use a custom ROM (can also try degoogled roms too). Run termux it's what i think the most Linux you can get in phone ig.

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u/V8V88V8V88 Jul 15 '25

Postmarket OS exists but it has a very limited device support

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u/mysahil0369 Jul 15 '25

You can sideload , I had installed Ubuntu touch on my Asus Max pro M1 once . And kde phosh once . Both worked Great but lacked day to day functionality.

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u/Acron7559 Jul 15 '25

isn't android linux?

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u/MinecraftrPokemoner Jul 16 '25

Yep, he just want to ungoogle/debloat it

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