Does anybody use Ubuntu Touch as their daily driver? If not what other OS could you recommend.

Im looking to de googlefy as much as I can and also looking to have more freedom with what I can / cannot do with my own phone.

I have a fairphone 5, graphene isn’t supported and I don’t think I want /e/os.

Open to suggestions however I won’t be able to change hardware.

  • anime_ted@lemmy.world
    3·
    13 days ago

    I wish I could use it but I can’t. The folks developing UT are awesome but they are a very small group of unpaid volunteers and this stuff is painfully difficult to do.

    One of the biggest problems is the lack of VoLTE support for making actual phone calls on most phones. Last I looked (which was admittedly more than a month ago) only a few models supported it, and it is the only supported mobile voice protocol in several countries. You can work around this with a SIP (Voice over IP) account and some geekery but it’s not ideal.

    Another issue is very limited software. There just aren’t that many developers creating software for the platform.

    I ended up on /e/.

      • Rodsthencones@startrek.website
        2·
        12 days ago

        LineageOs is basically android without google. You can install the google stuff if you want it, or use open source alternatives like microg. F-droid replaces Google play. It gives you access to all the open source apps that do the stuff you do.

        Ubuntu touch is more of a full Linux distro that has been optimized for a phone. It works. Mostly things function, but it is limited. Not a lot of support for mobile type apps.

        I’ve used both on a few phones. I daily use lineages. I don’t think Ubuntu is ready for daily use yet. I think with lineages, you could install it get it set up in a few hours. Take a week to find apps to replace the ones your used to. And you would not really notice that your on lineageOS.

        My recommendations is to just install f-droid now and start using open source apps instead of whatever you are using. Slowly eliminate all the apps from google play. Take a month to see if you can live without google. If you can, switch to lineageOS. If not, at least you learned something.

        • Technoworcester@feddit.ukOP
          1·
          12 days ago

          Thanks. That’s really helpful.

          Already using F droid (have been for a couple of months now) and OS was the next step I was thinking off.

  • zemon@lemmy.ml
    2·
    12 days ago

    Calyx seems to be the best option for you. https://calyxos.org/ Next time you buy a phone (and live in the EU), you may consider Volla. It’s degoogled Android by default and dual-bootable with an SD card, so yo can try other OSes while keeping your daily driver.