(This post is a horrible description of the typical Linux phone experience. I just happened to get a barely-compatible device)
My phone runs Linux now. You might’ve seen in my Longe posts that I had touchscreen issues in PostmarketOS, well… I gave up and installed 5-year-old version of Ubuntu Touch on it.
The initial experience was horrible. There’re basically no apps in OpenStore, and it does not have a built-in way to install apps from other sources.
But it’s Linux! It doesn’t have free will, it can’t stop me. So I made the root partition writable, installed
nix (a programming language, and also a package manager that can run on any OS, including Linux, MacOS and Windows, through WSL)
and home-mamager (a configuration tool that uses nix), and am currently in the process of setting up [SXMO | sxmo.org] on this cursed abomination.
Linux has an amazing property: I do everything myself! Linux also has a gigantic downside: I do everything myself.
It doesn’t currently phone. Or… work. But I’m working on it