It looks like ubuntu touch on the fairphone 4 is nearly perfect, and the features that don’t work I won’t miss. I’m very tempted to buy a second hand fairphone 4, but I can’t really find much on the experience of ubuntu touch. How do you install apps? Are there repo’s that I can look at? And is it just branded ubuntu touch, or will any ubuntu apps made for arm work on ubuntu touch? If anybody has some links or personal experiences they could share, that would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks a lot in advance!
I’m noticing some conflicting information, do you have any sources?
Yes, I have used Ubuntu Touch as a daily driver for two years and even developed some apps for it.
@poVoq @jeffreyosborne Can I ask you what are you using now?
I got a Fairphone 5 and will probably try to use it with Mobian once that becomes available for it.
@poVoq thank you! Meanwhile are you using ubports or AOSP?
For now the stock android that was preinstalled. I only recently bought it 🤷♂️
I’m stuck on a hand-me-down iphone se 2020. I’m really sick of ios and apple in general, so I want to find a cheap pixel 3a or a fp4 and try out mobile linux. That would be more of an experiment though, so I’m going to look at the price of the pixel 8(a/pro) a few weeks after the release of the pixel 9.
@jeffreyosborne @joanisc The pixels don’t get some kind of security updates after about 4(? 5?) years. The advice is not to get one that’s past end-of-life, which only leaves pricey-ish ones. US$250 is pricey in my books.
Be all that as it may, highly recommend getting one (I have a 6a), and putting GrapheneOS on it and sitting back while everything works. (Except Merlin 🙁 ) I realize that’s not pure linux, but to me it’s outweighed by not having to fiddle around getting functionality.
@jeffreyosborne @poVoq There are things like everything in containers that restrict and secure each app. You can install Linux apps (I remember installing Kleopatra and had a terrible experience with the app not been mobile ready) but it’s not the same always. As an example, you can have SSH but it’s a container, so you don’t have access to other things remotely. So it’s a big variation of a regular Ubuntu. Now I have installed (FP4) PostmarketOS and it’s a real Alpine with pros and cons