2024 year of the Linux D̶e̶s̶k̶t̶o̶p̶ phone
Nothing would make me more happy. I really wish it weren’t such a pain to deal with the telephony. You check devices on postmarketOS & while some devices can boot, it’s usually the actual phone part that isn’t working--which is kind of an important part. The open hardware phones work fine, but their specs are ancient while being as expensive as flagships. I still have eventual hope tho as device needs have started to plateau.
I believe (and this just a believe) that one Linux-first phone with actually working hardware could tip the nonstopping swing. Not for "average" user anytime in maybe even next decade, but there are a lot of people bored with current smartphones, tinkers or just wanting more privacy above than unverificable and unproven promises from Apple and Google.
We literally already have Linux phones, but i would love to cut some bullshit in the middle and go more upstream one day
I would love to be able to use a Linux mobile as my primary but I know that's not going to happen, unfortunately.
Maybe some tech giant pumping money in a 3rd eco-system would help, i think it's very likely to happen one day
I am using the PinePhonePro as my primary phone for over a year now. There are of course some challanges but it is definitly possible
How do you like the software support, and which OS are you using?
I'm getting "Android Gingerbread on an HTC EVO" vibes, which is not a bad thing. It stands out, in a good way.
Love the look of this, would love to be able to use this on my current phone
This is the best summary I could come up with:
While there has been much talk this year about KDE Plasma 6.0 on the desktop as it gears up for release at the end of February, there's been less talk about the Plasma Mobile work for having the KDE stack on smartphones.
But it turns out some progress is quietly being made on KDE Plasma Mobile for bringing it aligned with the "6" platform.
KDE developer Devin Lin has been among those involved in working on upgrading the Plasma Mobile stack and ensuring everything is ported over to Qt6, compatible with KDE Frameworks 6, and jiving with the other KDE Plasma 6 components.
Porting the Plasma Mobile shell to Qt 6 was "fairly trivial" while it's been more of a challenge on the application side.
This work has also led to some other changes like moving the task switcher from the shell to a self-contained KWin effect, a rewrite to the default homescreen, a new plasma-mobile-envmanager service, a new plasma-mobile-initial-start application, a docked mode, and other enhancements.
Those wishing to learn more about the Plasma Mobile 6 work can do so via Devin's blog.
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lol
Kde plasma seems to complex for a phone
