nice. i'm planning on leaving the apple ecosystem and getting a pixel with graphene os, though this looks nice. maybe it'll become more popular in the future

Instead of using the adblocker app you could in theory modify hosts file in the /etc directory

@thelinuxexperiment yes that slow gallery app is there for some time, nobody was able to reproduce this bug, if you have some info you can comment my old issue gitlab.com/ubports/development

hi Nick, Linux on Smartphones have always been an unknown area for me, distros are way more different from one another that they are on desktop so it’s nice to see you covering ithope the Mobile Linux Experiment continues :)

@thelinuxexperiment What's the point to have linuxphone without flathub?

Thanks for the review.Looks like Ubuntu Touch is still more painful than Mobian Phosh. Mobian Phosh has access to all Linux desktop apps, many of which redraw for the phone screen, such as Nextcloud Sync app and Lollypop music app.

@thelinuxexperiment Thanks for giving UT a real try. It should be said in honesty, that North Amercian users can have another difficulty. Due to a difference in how NA mobile providers work, MMS may not work. And settings may need changing to get mobile internet working. EU users will have a better time due to standardization there.But even with that, I still love Lomiri (the UI) to pieces. Esp the top panel. W/ practice, you can get to a setting so fast.Tho, yes, change the back button.

It was a really nice video!I guess I'll be on a Linux phone once I start having more disposable income for such side projects in 2029.I'm lucky enough to be forced to have a professional iPhone (not paid by me) so the banking apps will probably stay on this one.

What phone do you have?

Looks like Ubuntu Touch is pretty limiting. I am daily driving PureOS and use Mobian for testing, both with Phosh and it works pretty well. Not as well as a real desktop, but most apps from desktop just work. Sudo apt install, Flatpaks etc or using native Firefox/LibreWolf or the desktop file manager ... it just works. The best of all? They are no smartphones, but pocketcomputers (computers that can also do phone stuff). I also saw people using PostmarketOS, Fedora and KDE Plasma Mobile, sxmo and alike. Pocketcomputers are so cool, all the freedom of desktop Linux on your phone device.

@thelinuxexperiment Great video. ThxI also tried out Ubuntu Touch on a 2 phone once, though just on the side. At the time, I was taking the train a lot and couldn't find a powerful app for train schedules. And you can forget about Waydroid on the GS 290—it's just not powerful enough for that.

You could usw Syncthng to sync your photos to another device https://open-store.io/app/syncthing.syncthing

Was it easy to install ubunut touch in the phone?

@thelinuxexperiment I was so happy to see a video giving a Linux phone a real, solid test. There are a million where they just open the interface and all the comments are about that, but it completely misses the more important issues like what's reliable, what doesn't work etc. That said, I was surprised you went with Ubuntu Touch rather than something like Mobian+Phoshon an FLX1 or similar.

Really good to see more Linux on phones and awesome you're sticking with it, it is my dream as well, sometime in the future! I have a OnePlus 6T where I once or twice a year try to see whether it could be a daily driver with PostmarketOS but so far I can't even make phone calls reliably, so I think it's gonna be a while before I'll be able to complete this type of challenge, haha! Some day...

Nice! Got some more apps to look for :)

A browser advice: choose Angelfish if it's available. For me it was the most stable, no-fuss, no-issue browser for day-to-day need.

Tldw: He mentions the new beta version of Ubuntu touch solved many problems. And he's going to use it as a daily driver going forward.

The problems he had were banking apps, photo sync, copy-paste from waydroid to Ubuntu touch, and notifications between waydroid and Ubuntu touch. He shows the waydroid to/from Linux works in KDE. So, probably a relatively quick fix for those 2 problems.

Edit: spelling.

Good video, also reinforces my decision to not install waydroid. I had it on my previous linux phone, and while it worked, it was a memory hog and quite slow. Which on the PPP made it even worse. Speed shouldn't be an issue on my new FP6, but going trough all the trouble to get a linux phone and then installing android seems counterproductive. Ofcourse if you absolutely need an android app, it is better then nothing ofcourse. but ideally you wouldn't need waydroid.

also am i the only one that finds the ubuntu sidebar while "fine" on desktop is even worse on phones? or am i too plasma biased?

It's a good video covering the good and bad.

I would give it a go if I could get my hands on a compatible phone here in Canada.