I’ve found it on Reddit today, it’s built on PostmarketOS and aims to replicate Blackberry 10 experience. Posting here because it looks much nicer than Phosh and I’ve never heard of it, despite following mobile linux communities.
I’ve found it on Reddit today, it’s built on PostmarketOS and aims to replicate Blackberry 10 experience. Posting here because it looks much nicer than Phosh and I’ve never heard of it, despite following mobile linux communities.
Why can’t desktop Linux be made to run on a phone?
With postmarketos you can run gnome desktop or gnome mobile.
https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Category:Interface
And hate yourself 👍
gnome mobile is quite good. I like it better than what ubuntu touch uses, Lomiri.
Because the hardware and drivers are proprietary and change every 2 years, which is too fast to keep up with reverse engineering them.
It can, but you’d need to have pretty thin fingers to use the GUI. Or carry a touchpad with you all the time.
Or a stylus.
A battery powered stylus with a pointing stick on the end and a few buttons along the body would be neat.
Which part do you mean?
Like having an ARM based pocket PC running Ubuntu.
Thats what Ubuntu touch, postmarketOS etc are already doing
Well, UBPorts still uses .click packages, those did not seem like good solution even in 2015… Those are just .deb files with a different extension and metadata.
Nowadays Flatpak seems more interesting, although… I personally prefer Debian packages.
*not without substantial hurdles (mostly due to hw / SoC support). I’m wondering if they were meaning to ask why this wasn’t more common today.