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I Installed Ubuntu Touch on My Phone in 2026 — Should You? (youtube.com)
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[–] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 25 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Firstly you most likely just cannot. Device support is very narrow.

But I have a phone I got secondhand just to play with it. I want to love it, but it feels dated. The gestures make using a lot of stuff hard. But the biggest thing is that in my country I can't even make calls due to no VoLTE support. Kinda kills even using it daily even as an experiment.

I did submit a pull request to add Colemak keyboard layout support to the keyboard though, which was accepted. So technically I'm a contributor :)

[–] poVoq@slrpnk.net 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

There is some VoLTE support in UT. The problem is that "VoLTE" isn't actually a standard and needs to be implemented differently for every vendor SoC, so that makes it very difficult to support.

[–] user@startrek.website 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Is that the reason? Skimming through dev blogs I had hoped the new ofono supported Mediatek and Snapdragon VoLTE.

[–] poVoq@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Yes, like I said, there is a need to do SoC vendor specific implementations.

[–] user@startrek.website 1 points 4 days ago

I'm out of the loop then :) I thought they were the only two existing. Thanks!

[–] Yaky@slrpnk.net 7 points 1 week ago

Not a bad overview, but IMO too focused on "it's not like Android" aspect, especially when talking about muscle memory and apps. I found Ubuntu Touch much smoother than phosh on PinePhone a few years back.

Just got a cheap supported phone for Ubuntu Touch, so gonna try it out too.

[–] MrSulu@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 week ago

This is the directional development we need to escape Google AI I every android device and being beholden to crappy spyware devices. I hope that we start to see a flood of options. Evolution time!