Mastodawn

Do I know anyone who has played with #SailfishOS and #PostmarketOS ... and can share their experiences with them as a daily driver?

Also, am I understanding that I could potentially still use apps from #FDroid even if I'm not running a flavor of Android at all?

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Fossery Tech

Mar 15

@ennenine Well, it depends on what apps you need. I'm running postmarketOS on a PinePhone, but I'm only using it for listening to music (not many mobile-friendly music players, since most mobile Linux apps are just desktop apps which can may or may not be scaled down to mobile screen, but Amberol and the new Vinyl are fully functional on mobile too), and for jogging (Exercise Timer app). Also used SMS, it mostly works, but sometimes the system needs to be restarted to receive new messages. As for Android apps, there's Waydroid, but I couldn't get it to work on any distro I tried on, it can't access the Internet for some reason, tried to troubleshoot but couldn't figure out what's the problem, didn't bother with it too much.
Overall, mobile Linux can be good for some basic usecase, but don't expect it to be a full-blown Android or iOS replacement, rather a Linux machine in your pocket. But I mean you can flex with using a terminal for your friends lol

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Randy Simons

@fosserytech @ennenine I've daily driving SailfishOS since it inception in 2013. It is Linux, so you can flex that terminal on it as well, root access and all. I've recently made a tool in Go (which compiles to native binaries). Well, that ARM64 Linux build of that tool Just Works on my XA2 running SailfishOS.

It has its wreaths. Don't expect full iOS/Android-level polish. The browser, while being Firefox-based, is lagging in development. Thus I use Firefox for Android as main browser instead.