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Re:Behind the Pixel: Google’s First Real Threat to Apple’s i... by confounded on Tuesday October 04, 2016 @11:54PM (#12641452)
Purism are working on a Debian phone! https://puri.sm/

(I wish them luck...)

I bought the BQ Ubuntu tablet. I hate to say it, but it's terrible. You have to set up a cloud account with Canonical to download or update apps (no reason given). Most of the apps are pretty bad. It's constantly pinging YouTube and news websites to show me stuff I don't care about, and can't turn off. No easy way to set up a VPN. No CalDAV, CardDAV. Difficult to imagine Shuttleworth himself using one.

Fine for watching films on airplanes, but very little else.

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Re:Behind the Pixel: Google’s First Real Threat to Apple’s i... by jstanley on Wednesday October 05, 2016 @12:46AM (#12641603)
> No easy way to set up a VPN.

That's not true, it's right there in the network settings. I use it. Maybe it just doesn't support the type of VPN you want to use?

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Re:Behind the Pixel: Google’s First Real Threat to Apple’s i... by confounded on Wednesday October 05, 2016 @01:32AM (#12641747)
I stand corrected!
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Re:Behind the Pixel: Google’s First Real Threat to Apple’s i... by CaptSpify on Wednesday October 05, 2016 @12:06AM (#12641487)
Is it a real linux system under the hood though? I don't care much about apps or anything, I care about being able to customize it to work how I want. terminal, cron, scripts, etc.
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Re:Behind the Pixel: Google’s First Real Threat to Apple’s i... by confounded on Wednesday October 05, 2016 @01:35AM (#12641752)
Technically yes, it's a slight variant of Ubuntu. However the packaging system out of the box doesn't allow `sudo apt-get install x` (at this point I stopped).
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