nixCraft 🐧Someone managed to run Linux on a Pixel 9 Pro XL (Android phone from Google) using the Terminal app, setting up XFCE within it. https://old.reddit.com/r/GooglePixel/comments/1ja82u9/working_linux_xfce_on_pixel_9_pro_xl/
Elliot Mackness@nixCraft
I would love another concerted effort for Linux Phones with privacy and personalisation being at the forefront.
Ubuntu Touch simply is not that good at the moment. Would love a lot of work on that or a new one
Agonie@elliotjmackness That's why there also are SailfishOS, Droidian and PMOS. SailfishOS is mature for a decade now, and we start to have smartphones sold under Droidian and fully usable in the USA (check the flx1 fom furylab). The situation is not that bad.
The issue with Sailfish is limited device support and honestly limited app options.
We need an effort similar to GrapheneOS to get support on popular devices and some how someone needs to work on app translation from Android to Linux.
The situation is harder for now. Hopefully someone with the knowhow and ambition can take Sailfish to where it needs to. At this time, its not an option.
@elliotjmackness Thanks to libhybris, there are much more devices supported by SFOS than the ones mentionned on their website. You can run most of the cli apps available on Linux.
Libhybris is free and is exploited by the other Linux OS for smartphones to run on them.
About running apps on Linux, there is waydroid (free too). Furylabs has an heavely patched waydroid version for a better integration into Droidian, and it works very well. Also Droidian can run native Linux apps
There is everything you are looking for this days, and it works very well. The FLX1 (Droidian + Waydroid from Furylab) has a very good battery life, VoLTE (main issue for Linux phones, calls over LTE isn't as standardized than with GSM).
"Hopefully someone with the knowhow and ambition can take Sailfish to where it needs to. At this time, its not an option."
Why not you ? ;)