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Android 8 and above will become restricted globally in 2027 (media.piefed.ca)
submitted 4 months ago by to c/linuxphones@lemmy.ca
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The mighty cat knight holding up the shield improving hardware support for Postmarket OS protecting Fairphone users as princess from thrown fruit of Google locking down android.
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[–] 18 points 4 months ago (11 children)

Hang on, as a Fairphone user, what's PMOS in this context? I've been running e/OS because I got mine through Murena, but I've been in the market for even more de-Googled alternatives, since e/OS appears to be sort of the kiddy pool.

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  • [–] 51 points 4 months ago* (8 children)

    PMOS is PostmarketOS, it is a linux distribution for mobile devices.

    e/OS is a fork of LineageOS bundled with MicroG.

    the difference is that PostmarketOS runs mainline linux, while e/OS and LineageOS still run android.

    while degoogled, android is in the end still controlled by google, and their game plan seems to be to shift as much from AOSP to google play services, which will make degoogled android harder and harder.

    using mainline linux bypasses this entirely. with the bonus of being able to use all software of the linux ecosystem.

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

    All the software of the Linux ecosystem with extremely poor mobile device compatibility design wise.

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  • [–] 10 points 4 months ago

    For now, but why bother formatting stuff for mobile when Linux mobile wasn't used very much yet?

    Now that it's picking up steam, I can see there being mobile compatible or mobile-primary programs coming out.

    KDE has been really impressive with Plasma Mobile. They have me excited. :D

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  • [–] 7 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    There's actually quite a few bits that are compatible! I tried out the OnePlus 6 with Phosh, and there are lots of good apps already! Make sure to look for apps that are labeled "adaptive" in the software store, those work the best on mobile. Firefox also works quite well with the "Add Water" app, it gives it a GTK theme (matches with Phosh) and increases padding by a bit.

    As for the apps I liked (all of which adapted well in mobile): Geary (email client, GTK3 I think, so you need to enable dark mode in the mobile settings), Fractal (Matrix client), Gapless (music player), GNOME/KDE Weather, Secrets (KeePass client), Apostrophe (Markdown notes), Mimick (Immich sync client), Fotema (photo gallery), Animatch (match game with cute art and no microtransactions or ads, open-source too!), Ultimate Tic Tac Toe (actually has quite a bit of strategy involved), Pentobi (very similar to the "Blokus" board game if you've ever played that, very fun!)

    And there are a lot of KDE/Qt equivalents that I have not tried (since I was running the GTK-based Phosh)

    Being able to install Flathub apps was very handy actually, and it's one of the reasons why I decided to try postmarketOS over something like Ubuntu Touch.

    If you want to explore other mobile apps (on Flathub): https://flathub.org/en/apps/collection/mobile/1

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  • [–] 11 points 4 months ago* (2 children)

    Thank you! I think we may have spoken on this once before, but I didn't recognize the name. I am now following this effort with great interest.

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