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Community about running GNU/Linux on phones. Projects like Ubuntu Touch, Plasma Mobile, PostmarketOS, Mobian etc. Either on former Android phones or hardware like the PinePhone.

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Anyone know anything about the jolla phone? (piefed.social)

submitted 4 months ago by mesamunefire@piefed.social to c/linuxphones@lemmy.ml

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https://commerce.jolla.com/products/jolla-community-phone

I know nothing about this company or the phone. But it says it runs linux.

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[–] devfuuu@lemmy.world 8 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I have the original one pre ordered, orange cover and all. It was my first smartphone. Used it for years. Then things started to become slower (more apps using more resources / being heavier) and my needs changed (wanted better camera, more space, 5g, need to use android apps that required a higher api version) and bought my second smartphone which was an android.

So the phone really is linux, had systemd / journalctl if I'm remembering right, file system was btrfs which I had to do some maintenance by hand by ssh into it, it was using wayland. Basically 2 things were closed source: their UI and the thing that allowed to run android apps emulated.

I absolutely loved it and the ux was very nice. It took me a lot of time to get used to modern UX of android after it and it was painful to adjust.