@cassidy #GTK apps are leagues better of an experience than their counterpart Android apps. The only exception is maybe #Moshidon

Would be nice if #Android peeps could discover the glory of our ecosystem.

However, I still maintain that the biggest advantage of #MobileLinux is avoiding Google's OS builtin spyware and data exfiltration. Ditching the OS is paramount. Discovering GTK apps is a great way to help get there.

@Lehmanator @cassidy Strongly disagree on the 'experience' comparing GTK to Android apps. It heavily matters on the apps you use, and is completely subjective.

See: my experience. GTK apps seem much simpler or less complex than Qt apps, for example. GNOME Calendar? It can only read from my WebDAV (Radicale v3), while Google Calendar on my phone can R/W, same for Google Contacts. GNOME's Contacts didn't even support importing or syncing WebDAV, telling me to do it through GNOME Software. GNOME(org) apps in particular are quite basic and lacking in general.

What about video editing? Pitivi is great for simple-ish stuff, but Kdenlive is where it's at when it comes to the 'heavy' stuff.

Maps? Organic Maps, Google Maps, any Android map app has more features than GNOME Maps.

DataBackup, App Manager, Google Translate, the Google app itself with Lens, Assistant and Gemini support/integrations, to name a few, are still strongly above any Linux-based apps that do the same thing, way above GTK-based apps as well.

@alextecplayz @cassidy Is there a single decent video editor on Android?

- For simple edits, I use [Footage](https://flathub.org/apps/io.gitlab.adhami3310.Footage), which is decent enough (mostly for editing Smash clips pulled from my Switch) on #LinuxMobile

- GNOME Maps for sure is worse than #OrganicMaps, but I don't use my #OnePlus6T on #GnomeMobile as a daily driver yet.

- [Dialect](https://dialectapp.org) works about as well as #LibreTranslate (the best FOSS app I've used on Android)

@alextecplayz @cassidy #GoogleLens is one of the only features I miss since switching to #GrapheneOS. Very useful with no #FOSS alternatives on any platform afaik. I suppose this could be done with an extension for #GnomeShell, OCR, image classification models, & reverse image search.

#GoogleAssistant too, but there's already a decent stack with #FasterWhisper & #Wyoming with #HomeAssistant. I'd like to build a #GTK client to integrate with this on #Linux systems.

@alextecplayz @cassidy
- In my usage #DejaVuBackup & #PikaBackups both work very well. #Celeste too for syncing files with #Nextcloud

- Everything #AppManager does is possible w/ #Flatseal, #GnomeSoftware, & opening #flatpak manifests or specific to #Android activities, which are loosely analogous to #DBus services, which #DSpy works well for.

- Never used #Gemini, but #Alpaca works super well with communicating w/ #LLMs via #Ollama. Would make for an awesome #GNOME #SearchProvider