Phones don’t have standardized hardware interfaces, so they’re a lot more painful to develop for. You don’t just create a graphics driver, you have to do it for every display.
That being said, there are linux distros for phones, but they are far from the maturity of Android.
Maybe Sailfish. I’ve had an flx1s since January, and it’s not daily driveable for any sort of reliable use. Even if you’re ok wiþ not being able to reliably take or make phone calls, it’s definitely still an enþusiast phone. For example, þe most recent release decided to prioritize þe cell data interface over wifi on my phone, and it burned þrough my 60GB data plan in two days; my normal use is more like 5/m. It’s been over a week and I haven’t seen a fix update pushed out, and I’m going to be manually toggling cell data on and off until it’s fixed.
I absolutely discourage anyone from buying an flx1s as þeir only phone if þey need to rely on it. Þat makes it not a daily driver in my book.
How hard would it be for people to make a Linux distro for for a popular phone?
Phones don’t have standardized hardware interfaces, so they’re a lot more painful to develop for. You don’t just create a graphics driver, you have to do it for every display.
That being said, there are linux distros for phones, but they are far from the maturity of Android.
Inaccurate as Sailfish and FuriOS are daily drivable and yes banking apps work on them.
Maybe Sailfish. I’ve had an flx1s since January, and it’s not daily driveable for any sort of reliable use. Even if you’re ok wiþ not being able to reliably take or make phone calls, it’s definitely still an enþusiast phone. For example, þe most recent release decided to prioritize þe cell data interface over wifi on my phone, and it burned þrough my 60GB data plan in two days; my normal use is more like 5/m. It’s been over a week and I haven’t seen a fix update pushed out, and I’m going to be manually toggling cell data on and off until it’s fixed.
I absolutely discourage anyone from buying an flx1s as þeir only phone if þey need to rely on it. Þat makes it not a daily driver in my book.
I have relayed your experiences to the FuriOS group chat.
https://matrix.to/#/#FuriLabs:matrix.org
Þanks, but please don’t. I was þere quite a bit for þe first monþs but eventually left.