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  • HiddenLayer555@lemmy.mltoLinux@lemmy.mlThe state of Linux phones in 2025
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    15 days ago

    Why? I don’t drive and don’t have a car but I can’t imagine the car itself not already having the exact same features since modern cars already have what is essentially a tablet built in.

    Also, why not just have one of those phone holders on your dashboard like people have been doing before car integration was a thing?


  • Are those actually the only things you find lacking? If so that’s really good, practically the same as using LineageOS without any Google services.

    I don’t use any of the stuff you mentioned and might have to consider Linux mobile as a daily driver if it’s that good. Especially if Google kills custom ROMs, it sounds like the people already running them would feel right at home switching to Linux mobile.

    More importantly, how’s the app situation? Can people generally expect most of the desktop GTK or Qt apps they’re familiar with to be usable on a phone form factor? Is there a reliable way to run Android APKs on regular Linux now? At the very least F-droid apps?










  • All of the long time Linux users have what you perceive as flawless experiences because they already did all the stumbling you did and more. Every operating system has steep learning curves and you will struggle with how it does things when first starting out. I recently had to start using Windows again after exclusively using Linux for years (and Windows 11 no less which I never used before) and there are plenty of times I’ve failed to do simple things I could do on Linux without even thinking.