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All 3 cameras working on the Fairphone 6 running Linux (x.com)
submitted 2 months ago by to c/linuxphones@lemmy.ca
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[–] 24 points 2 months ago (9 children)

The world needs Linux phones badly but development is way, way behind what I assumed

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  • [–] 30 points 2 months ago (8 children)

    Driver support needs to be done separately for each device, so it's a moving target. Work on Fairphone 6, a pretty new device, seems to be progressing well.

    As far as I can tell Ubuntu Touch, Sailfish and postmarketOS are all daily driver ready. In pmOS you typically have the choice between GNOME and KDE, both of which seem to have their fans, meaning there are at least four relatively mature mobile desktop environments.

    The biggest problem as far as I can see is app support, which is not a problem of Linux phone development but of monopolistic and/or careless third parties. And even for that Android emulation seems to have gotten pretty good.

    I'm not sure what you assumed and how it fails to align with reality, but Linux phones have had camera support a long time. It's just that it needs to be added separately for each device, each time by unpaid hackers who bought the devices for their own money.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago (5 children)

    How is pmOS daily driver ready when the OP just got the camera working? I think the other dev JUST got audio and emergency calls working too, right?

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  • [–] 9 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Driver support needs to be done separately for each device, so it’s a moving target. Work on Fairphone 6, a pretty new device, seems to be progressing well.

    Daily driver ready in general and daily driver ready on Fairphone 6 are two different things. New phones are released all the time and they all need their own set of drivers and hardware support. That's separate from the operative system itself being ready or not.

    Emergency calling worked already, it was just tested so that we now know that it works on the FP6.

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

    The only things not working yet in my image are:

    Front camera NPU Fingerprint sensor

    If these are not a dealbreaker for being daily driver ready then its daily driver ready.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Thank you for the clarification! I'd have to be pretty into tinkering with Linux, to use it right? Not that I personally mind, but I don't think it's something I should just recommend my 70yo dad who can barely use macos quite yet as his daily driver... Right?

    I really wanna try the fairphone (and your image!) but I can't justify the price. It's not the phone's problem, though, it's more of a problem with my level of disposable income lol

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  • [–] 7 points 2 months ago

    The installation requires some linux knowledge yes, the usage after is pretty simple.

    Issue is any person used to android is going to wonder "why is this app suddenly gone from the store". Unless you use waydroid, but I'm not sure how seamless the experience is there. Or if they don't use any apps that don't have linux equivalents.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    As far as I can tell Ubuntu Touch, Sailfish and postmarketOS are all daily driver ready.

    They are "daily driver ready" in the "Desktop Linux in 2007" sense. You need to know a lot about Linux to daily drive it.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago

    Sure, it's not for everyone, and software support leaves a lot to be wanted.

    It's funny though - I've been using Linux since late 2007, and I have never been a technical user. Best I can do is copy paste things I don't understand into the terminal if absolutely necessary. It always just worked for me. :)

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