My ideal ecosystem would be having a Fairphone 5 (Postmarket OS) paired with the Pinetime Watch, the Framework Laptop (Linux Mint), the Steam Deck, the AMD desktop (Nobara) and the openwrt router.

The services I would use would be Lemmy, Wikipedia, Mastodon, Organic Maps, LibreOffice, Ecosia, Loops, Librewolf, Thunderbird, Friendica, Pixelfed, Proton, GOG, Peertube, Matrix, Localsend, Gitlab, Kiwix, Audacity, Gimp and Bookwyrm.

    • octoblade@lemmynsfw.com
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      18 days ago

      For me personally, there are two main things preventing it from being a daily driver. First is instability of the waydroid container (I am having to restart waydroid multiple times per day currently) and second is that dual SIM currently isn’t functional in software.

      There are also a few general bugs and usability improvements to be made. Most of the modem bugs were fixed in the latest update, but I still rarely have an issue where mobile data just won’t work for a while. Sometimes receiving calls is a bit glitchy too.

      Some general usability things I have noticed that could be improved include UI/UX improvements and improved OOTB configs. For example, I needed to manually change pulseaudio config to enable USB audio devices. It also still doesn’t automatically change to headphones when plugged in, but I think this could be enabled in pulseaudio config.

      Ultimately, if you don’t need to use Android apps at all and don’t need a second SIM, you could probably daily drive as is right now with the latest update. It would take some getting used to though due to some of the UI/UX quirks (probably impacting upstream phosh too, but I don’t have another device to test stock phosh).

      • 𝕽𝖚𝖆𝖎𝖉𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍@midwest.social
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        18 days ago

        Hmmm. Ok, Thanks. I still need to wait, then. I do have a need for Android apps; so many companies have their own, and they’re often superior to the web experience.

        One thing I’m frustrated with at the moment is that Android can’t run two VPNs concurrently, and may never. I really want a Linux phone so I can set up a private VPN on a subnet, with hosts entries, to get at my personal servers, while also having all public traffic going through my VPN provider. Android can set up only one VPN subnet, with include and exclude masks, but still only one VPN peer endpoint. It’s driving me nuts.