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[–] 5 points 6 months ago (5 children)

Been using a Linux phone as my main phone since January; after, like, 5 years of wanting to get off Android, I'm not ever going back, if I can help it.

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago (4 children)

    Which device? Which OS?

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  • [–] 5 points 6 months ago* (3 children)

    FuriLabs's FLX1s; it runs Debian (I think testing?).

    It utilizes Halium, to get hardware fully working, but that's a temporary tradeoff I'm willing to make to finally be able to daily-drive a Linux phone.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    I was wondering... on their website they say it can run Android apps - is this just via Waydroid, or is there something else in place?

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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 child)

    More or less the former; they use a fork of Waydroid called Andromeda (one of the developers used to work on Droidian, I believe); repo.'s at https://github.com/FuriLabs/andromeda. So, you know, it works very similarly but it's not technically the same thing.

    It's not particularly easy to find (technically, you can get to it from their website but I think the lack of Google bothering to list it in search results makes most people miss it; I definitely did until it was mentioned in the Telegram/Matrix chat) but they do have an FAQ page that has a lot of details. It's not always as detailed as one might want (so feel free to ask me anything as I'm running the device from day-to-day) but it does have quite a bit; here's their section regarding running Android app.s: https://furilabs.com/faq/#faq-240

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago

    Thanks for answering! I actually just tried out Droidian and was blown away that it runs Waydroid in a way that ypu can have Android and Linux apps pretty seamlessly side by side. Up until now I was under impression that to use Waydroid you need to open it and run apps that way. But nope! It boggles my mind this is not talked about more.

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