entirely depends on the phone and the setup you go with, postmarket is kinda more of a platform than a single specific OS, like if fedora made you choose one of their spins.
I’ve only used it on a pinephone (which isn’t exactly the ideal hardware…) and my experience on that was that you could probably survive using it as a fancy feature phone.
What alternative are you going to make? My bank only publishes their app on Play Store. I can either use Play Store app or Aurora to install it. You think that if you build alternative, open source store my bank will publish their app there? You think any bank will? F-Droid already exists, do you see any banks publishing their apps there? Do you see any of them dong Linux version of their apps?
The alternative here would be some other corporation building independent app store and getting everyone to publish their apps there. Amazon tried that many years ago. Maybe Samsung could do it now. It’s definitely not something we can make.
Well looks like its time to start making alternatives or scream for Linux to come out with a phone.
PostnarketOS sends their regards
But does it actually work like a phone? Calling, texting, no issues?
entirely depends on the phone and the setup you go with, postmarket is kinda more of a platform than a single specific OS, like if fedora made you choose one of their spins.
I’ve only used it on a pinephone (which isn’t exactly the ideal hardware…) and my experience on that was that you could probably survive using it as a fancy feature phone.
Linux phones work, but they depend on many Google Android apps to be daily usable by normal people.
I’m out of breath by this point. You want to scream now of all times?
What alternative are you going to make? My bank only publishes their app on Play Store. I can either use Play Store app or Aurora to install it. You think that if you build alternative, open source store my bank will publish their app there? You think any bank will? F-Droid already exists, do you see any banks publishing their apps there? Do you see any of them dong Linux version of their apps?
The alternative here would be some other corporation building independent app store and getting everyone to publish their apps there. Amazon tried that many years ago. Maybe Samsung could do it now. It’s definitely not something we can make.