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[–] englislanguage@lemmy.sdf.org 22 points 6 months ago (1 children)

You need a phone, tablet, or other device that’s been rooted.

😦

[–] Telorand@reddthat.com 2 points 6 months ago

Fedora 41 is supposedly including some mobile-specific features, so I'll just wait until there's more options.

[–] Veraxus@lemmy.world 6 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (3 children)

I’d prefer just running Linux on metal, but that’s me.

Whatever happened to all those Linux mobile projects, anyway?

[–] jose1324@lemmy.world 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

They're still there and still suck

[–] Veraxus@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago
[–] cor 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

PinePhone is pretty cool… there’s a few straight up linux phones now…

[–] elbarto777@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

A few, you say.

Care to list them, please? Or are they just Fairphone models?

[–] Lem453@lemmy.ca 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

So far everything has been very lacklustre. This update just got announced. Maybe it will be better?

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-41-KDE-Mobile-Proposal

[–] ricdeh@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

Interesting, but there's not much meat to this story yet. We'll see how it'll be

[–] kaboom36@ani.social 0 points 6 months ago

Should be a decent improvement for privacy if all google sees you doing is running a Linux VM