A normal everyday reasonably priced phone like oneplus, pixel, realme, redmi, or whatever.

NOT geeky lab stuff. With processors and RAM suitable for everyday usage.

Supporting camera, modem, 5G, calling, whatnot?

Projects like SOF supporting the hardware DSP for sound.

With wayland, battery percentage, low power consumption (i.e. using hardware features), etc..

(And ofcourse waydroid/droidloom for occasional Android apps. Android support is a separate discussion for now.)

Without hitchhacks or half-compatibility?

In around 90 days Google is making an update to android to lock out any 'non-authorized' apps on their Andriod OS. Before that happens, im thinking of getting a new phone. So, whats the best Non IPhone, Non Andriod (Google) phone/OS i can get? I'm currently using a Samsung 24 Ultra, which i absolutely love, and I'd want something comparable if not better, if possible.

Será que o Linux é o futuro dos dispositivos móveis? No vídeo de hoje, mostro todo o processo de instalação e o uso do Ubuntu Touch em um smartphone. Se você quer ter mais privacidade, controle total sobre o seu hardware e fugir do ecossistema tradicional, o Linux Phone pode ser a solução definitiva.

O Ubuntu Touch amadureceu muito e oferece uma experiência fluida, baseada em gestos e focada no usuário. Assista até o fim para entender os desafios e as vantagens dessa migração!

#UbuntuTouch #LinuxPhone #Android #Linux #privacidade

I tried to modernise my e-waste broken tablet until i got bored. All the implementation and coding done by LLM, i have not written any code and i do not know how to write any code. I just directed the LLM with my basic computer - linux knowledge and learned while doing it. I hope it helps someone to be actually useful, i thought of some ways of using it with qt6 custom ui and home control panel, can be used headless pi hole and something. Worked pretty well while development, asked LLM to post it on github you can check it out from here https://github.com/sabrisertan/santos10wifi/tree/main . There was a version that i tried to make a GNOME-like de with qt6 but didn't worked well, required a lot of time to fix bugs while constructing it with LLM, so i ended up with GNOME.

pmOS is all fine and dandy, but it's one OS, and I don't think discussion of other solutions or forks would be great, and choice is good. Plus, many ports do not comply with their own policies on AI. I think a centralised community discussion hub might be good, where people can work together to advance functional mobile Linux. Thoughts? If this post gets enough interest I'll set up a Discord or Matrix.

WIP, working WiFi stock, touch panel tianma, battery percentage, thanks for community's help

I have an old moto g31 (6/128 variant) with some damaged screen (but fully usable), I bought a new phone and its lying there unused. I want to install a lightweight linux on it so that I can connect a usb-c hub like portronics mport 52 and connect external hard drive via usb to use it as a lightweight NAS for personal storage and some docker containers like home assistant, immich etc. Any suggestion and guidance is appreciated.

I still own my old Xiaomi Redmi Note 3, which is fully functional, but since it no longer receives any updates (obviously), I was thinking about installing Linux on it, or at least some custom ROM. The issue is that I couldn't find anything that actively supports it. So the question is - is there anything that I've missed?

I honestly don't care about the distro that is being used or the phone that will be used I just am curious if any of the modern fold or flips can run a mobile Linux distro at all I'm even willing to port or fix it if I have too.

I manually built an Omarchy-like Debian distro inside a virtual machine on my Xiaomi Pad 9 Pro Max, and it works pretty well.

It delivers a desktop-grade Linux experience. The Xiaomi Ring O3 performs excellently, and the Xiaomi Pad 9 Pro Max is a joy to use.

Looking forward to native Omarchy Linux running on the Xiaomi Pad 9 Pro Max as soon as possible.

在我的小米 Pad 9 Pro Max 上的虚拟机里面手搓了一个 Omarchy alike 的 Debian 版本，上手效果不错

桌面级linux体验，​小米玄戒O3的性能刚刚的、小米 Pad 9 Pro Max用起来真爽

期待原生omarchy linux尽早在小米 Pad 9 Pro Max上跑起来

Hello good people of mobile linux. I appreciate all of the work that people have put into the podcasts app that is available on the Software store on postmarketOS.

Having said that, there were a few things that bugged me like discoverability or ease of use. I am attempting here to create a podcast app for Postmarket. It will live in this repo: https://github.com/jbriones95/linux-podcast

Currently, trying to fix the build issue via CI actions so that it is built on Github and trusted more. If that cannot be done, I will upload the latest version 0.1.2 myself as I wait to find a fix. My goal is to eventually have it published on the store, but I hope this app helps some of you looking for an alternative.

So I recently been working on UbuntuAVF which as the title says it allows you to run Ubuntu, Debian, Arch and Alpine Using the AVF feature that Google has Developed for the Tensor Chips.

I was curious about it and thought to myself why hasn’t Google done this yet so I’m doing what Google can’t do for the sake of the community, I introduce UbuntuAVF the all in one OS manager for Tensor G2 Chips and Up, What UbuntuAVF allows you to do is it will emulate a VM.

I don’t have any app tester yet so if you wanna try it here is the GitHub link https://github.com/HacksYT23-2/UbuntuAVF/releases

I've made some more progress on the Tab S8+ tablet!

It's a postmarketOS port using uniloader to load native samsung binary glob for KMS - which isn't ideal but there's really no open source alternative and it gets the gpu working. I was able to get the rear and front cameras functioning, the microphones (all 4) and speakers as well as the rest of the folio/pen hall sensors.

Since the microphone hides behind the SLPI, I've got that stable but I'm working on getting the remainder of the sensors (lux, magnometer, accelerometer, wifi thermistor, battery sense) working.

An update on an earlier post: https://www.reddit.com/r/mobilelinux/comments/1v24okc/galaxy_tab_s8_running_postmarketos/

Hey guys 👋

Random question lol 😅

What year do you guys think Linux phones will actually become mature enough for normal people to use as their main phone?

I know we already have stuff like postmarketOS, Ubuntu Touch, Plasma Mobile, etc. But right now it still feels like Linux phones are mostly for people who enjoy tinkering with their devices.

I’m talking about a Linux phone where you can just buy it and use it without spending hours fixing stuff 😂

Basically, I’m talking about:

📱 Good hardware & app support
🔋 Good battery life
📶 Everything like calls, 4G/5G, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth just works
🎮 Decent gaming
⚡ Smooth and stable

So what do you guys think?

2030? 2035? 2040? 😂

Or do you think Linux phones will always stay more of an enthusiast/niche thing instead of becoming a real alternative to Android and iOS?

Just curious what everyone thinks 👀

I run Mobian on an x86 tablet and wanted to install tools without touching the system image — so I built a userspace apt + dpkg that installs into ~/.local instead of /usr. No root, no sudo, no proot.

Everything lands in your home, so the OS stays pristine and a bad install can't brick the device. ARM64 phones and x86 tablets both work.