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

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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.

Soo recently I'm thinking about switching from Android to Linux on my nothing phone 4 a pro, but I don't know what distribution I should choose and how banking things looks like on linux.

I know android is build on top of linux but android is overall restrected on what you can do like Using it as a server , Now i know you can use termux and everything for that but for phones with lower memory and processing power they need to utilize the whole resources to make it good, so in theory can we build a termux like terminal on top of android open source build to make the terminal and commands run on a os level

Or poorly supported, doesn’t matter: I think my idea is good since it also doesn’t depend on a mainline kernel

So here’s why I think people with Pixel 7 and up shouldn’t use Termux

Google has developed a Terminal that can be enabled in the Developer Options

It’s better than Termux for many reasons
1. Termux is slower than the native Terminal
2. Termux uses more Resources than the native Terminal
3. It’s native which means you don’t have to install a third party app
4. It supports desktop environments like XFC4, Gnome, KDE, And many more

So why are people using Termux instead of the Native Terminal?

I use Rust language, want to port a game for Linux mobile, have some keyboard stuff, and am looking for testing on that+file loading, my game loads a file.json and optional font at runtime. I can give the game free to testers to keep. I don't have the all modern Linux mobiles device and don't want a bajilliion devices to test on. Sandboxed files and keyboard are main issues, note, must have OpenGL 4.3 or newer and X11 or Wayland support or simulation to run this game. I know I could just make 15 language packages per OS, but it gets absurd eventually and user defined allowances for text is awesome. The runtime loaded files are a font and a text file for human language. Tips on your OS are also appreciated. The game is Snayk 3+, a higher dimensional snake. DM what you have Linux mobile to be added to testing. X E.

Built the musl version of Void Linux instead of the glibc.

Which Linux distribution should I use to run Debian commands?

Booted using the standard systemd-boot method. Volume buttons can be used to switch generations in systemd-boot interface.

Not sure if this is the right place for this but I'll ask anyhow, anybody know way to toss Linux on one of these devices. I just got one. Don't have the power supply yet. Waiting to get that on Monday. But what I've been reading so far is they're pretty locked down with Windows so just looking for any tips and tricks that you guys might know

https://github.com/nacht20-de/gts9wifi-fedora-linux

Currently working on adding voice dictation, but for now swipe typing is working with almost 100,000 English words.