Linux phones are notoriously bad.

Wasn't that a thing? It was called like HTC Vive or something?

引用自 Chaosolous：

Linux phones are notoriously bad.

GNU/Linux on smartphone is pretty decent nowadays if you have a well supported device with a reasonably fast SoC (such as a OnePlus 6), many could daily drive it.

Hardware support is pretty limited, and worse yet most of that hardware is pretty underpowered. The PinePhone and even Librem 5 as quite slow. The PinePhone Pro is basically the bare minimum for a device usable as a daily driver, and something like a OnePlus 6 is optimal.

Considering how good GNU/Linux on smartphones has gotten, I will soon be ditching Android.

Android is Linux, in that it uses the kernel. But it's about as un-'free as in freedom, not free beer' as it's possible to be.

LineageOS and /e/OS work brilliantly. Go support Murena and encourage them to release more models internationally.
https://murena.com/smartphones/

引用自 Chaosolous：

Linux phones are notoriously bad.

I bought a Pinephone just to mess with it, and while it was useable I don't think I could daily drive it.

As mentioned above, the best option is buying an Android phone that can install Linux instead.
PostMarketOS is actually quite decent.

引用自 libadwaita ΘΔ (she/they)：

引用自 Chaosolous：

Linux phones are notoriously bad.

GNU/Linux on smartphone is pretty decent nowadays if you have a well supported device (such as a OnePlus 6), many could daily drive it.

I've been keeping tabs on what Linux phones are doing, and from what I've seen, it's usable but not really all that well optimized.

TBH though, UbuntuTouch is the only one I ever see anything about.

Hmmmm, good information in this thread. I'll have to look into some of these others.

Yeah, Android sucks. Never going back.

引用自 Chaosolous：

Hmmmm, good information in this thread. I'll have to look into some of these others.

I've mainly played around with Debian on a few weaker devices, none really powerful enough to be a daily driver though.

I will be buying a OnePlus 6 or 6T soon, which will be a slight upgrade in hardware specs from my current main smartphone (Google Pixel 2 XL - Currently on LineageOS 22.2) and because the Google Pixel 2 XL is plenty fast for me, the OnePlus 6/6T should be even more so. It's support is among the best and is also among one of the most powerful smartphones that can run the mainline Linux kernel.

It's not 100% there yet though, for the OnePlus 6 there's still somewhat lacking camera support (although progress has been made on that front) and USB OTG. Apart from that, mostly everything works.

I think GNU/Linux on smartphones could someday be a third option for more people once hardware support improves, and for some people (like me) it's already is just as good if not better than Android.

I'm on a Pixel and just jumped over to GrapheneOS.

I imagine SteamOS on a phone would be ass. The mobile Steam app has had problems for years. This is not an area that Valve excel in.

I love steam but i hate steam app and the fact they separated steam chat mobile from steam mobile app


Really just WHY?! Besides having yet another app to suck on more data

So i wouldnt think they could make a good steam os phone based on that

it would suck, steam as a standalone is great steam as an OS sucks. Imagine a phone that is incompatible with 80% of apps

SteamOS is the only good Linux so it might be decent

引用自 Maximus10113X：

SteamOS is the only good Linux so it might be decent

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ThJcHjCI9j4

There are Linux distros on phones, the problem is, nobody is really developing good distros for it, with wide device support. And there isn't really any good UIs for it, since that's a different thing completely. A big reason for that is Android is already basically Linux so there's not that big of a market for it.