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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

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Linux Mobile OS experience 2025? (beehaw.org)

submitted 5 days ago by Sinfaen@beehaw.org to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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Has anybody attempted to daily drive linux on their smartphone? like sailfish os, postmarket, librem, etc. I've been getting more interested in them as my pixel 4a is starting to look real old

How was it it? Were you able to run banking apps? battery life? experience with using CJK keyboards?

As far as I can tell, RCS messages are not supported anywhere, in addition to NFC payments (no surprise there). 5G seems also iffy

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[–] rikudou 1 points 5 days ago

SFOS is very good in that regard, especially on the official devices with Android Support. It mostly boils down to how much you need the various Android apps and whether they work. The biggest issue seems to be banking apps. I'm lucky that my works, but many of them don't.

RCS does not work, AFAIK. No idea about CJK, but I think Japanese is officially supported. NFC payments don't work. No idea about 5G.

I daily drived my Xperia 10 III for over a year, it was fine, though there were things that needed fixing. Those seem to be fixed now, so I'm thinking of daily driving it again.