I’ve pretty much run every distro under the sun. From arch to Gentoo to Debian and all of the middle ones. I then landed on endeavour OS and used it for around 3 years. It was great until it broke.

Every couple of months something breaks and I can never fix it. Nothing fixes it, even a timeshift restore. I just had to reinstall, and that was painful. I’ve then set out on a new hunt.

I’m now experimenting with Nobara OS as it is a better Fedora and comes with some goodies for gaming. It’s been ok so far besides this occasional random freezing that I can’t figure out. It goes away by either rebooting or switching to a tty and back to GUI. I’m still experimenting with it. If it works well, I’ll keep it, if not, my next experiment will be BazziteOS. I did try mint for a little bit, too, and liked it, but I wanted to explore more.

Understandable. I personally don’t really care that much to make a list about the flaws of a social media site (no judgement of course). I just coast along for a little bit and go back to reading my books.

100%. I’m relatively new to Linux and to the western world as a whole. 😅

How so?

My experience has been the opposite. People are nicer here.

This kind of answers my question. lol. I didn’t think about it that way. I thought they can just bring it all here and that one gets closer or something. I forgot how reddit works.

Been hosting on my Synology NAS for a while now. This is app kicks hard. I love it.

Could be. I don’t like the pixels. And I don’t like OnePlus either. Phones are like TV remotes now. So narrow and watching videos on them sucks. Going back to my Samsung ultra line up next year.

I’m pretty sure this is all in android 16 beta, which I don’t have. My dev options don’t include that Linux development environment option.

Ok, the app doesn’t have any place to enter those commands. It opens up this msdos like blue terminal and it’s stuck there. I can’t type anything. And the keyboard shows when I press the back button on the phone. I can’t exit the app,I can only exit with the home button

I love everything about them except two things:

1. The aspect ratio. It’s too damn narrow and it makes the phone look like a tv remote. They need to go a bit wider like Samsung. They do this stupid 20:9 aspect ratio. Watching YouTube sucks on it, too. Half of the video is just black bars because of the aspect ratio.

2. There nonstop chase after apple. They literally copy apple letter for letter in their phones’ hardware and software and it’s fucking disgusting. They are even now talking about removing the sound modes slider and replacing it with a button just like on the iPhone. They’re drooling over apple all the time and it’s pathetic. If I wanted an iPhone I’ll just get one. There is a reason why I went android.

It tells me it is not compatible with my phone. Is it on fdroid? Can I sideload it from somewhere? I have a OnePlus 12 phone and it is running Android 15

My OnePlus 12 has that option, too. It can be rooted just as easily.

It’s in the article. They want to run Linux desktop apps on Android because they’re switching chromeOS to android base instead of Linux.

Then I guess the root file system has never really been locked down? It was shipped stock, but they give you the option to “OEM unlock” and root. I know samsung locks their shit, but this is google that is relevant here

You can still root pixel phones no problem, no?

They’re doing this because they want to switch chrome to be android based, and they want to have desktop apps available right away since chrome doesn’t have much.

Some time in June.

Man, thank you for bringing that up. I love bauh. Already installed. Even for only appimages, I’d much rather use it than go hunting for them everywhere

Bauh can be installed on Fedora? I never realized that. I use to use it when I ran Endeavour OS, but I always thought it was an arch exclusive app.