Re:Growing Ubuntu for Cloud and IoT, Rather Than Phone and C...
by jhasse on Wednesday April 05, 2017 @03:33PM
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> Mostly being able to find OOTB tools that I want. I use f-droid on my android and I usually end up just going back to the play store to find anything worthwhile.
Okay but to be fair: If you had the Play Store on Ubuntu Phone you would probably also go there a lot more often. Especially for OOTB experiences ;)
> The Ubuntu phone gives me a real OS that I can just "apt-get install" something, then make a shell-script or something similar to fix my problem. Android's shell-system is a joke, which makes sense as they don't really want it to be usable. Ubuntu's shell system is much better, which means I can fix the problems that I come across myself.
That sounds nice indeed!
Re:Growing Ubuntu for Cloud and IoT, Rather Than Phone and C...
by profoundwhale on Wednesday April 05, 2017 @11:29PM
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With BB10 (Blackberry's OS) it was backwards compatible with most Android apps, but they didn't use the resources as well and slowed the phone down. If there was a native app, I always went with the native app.
Re:Growing Ubuntu for Cloud and IoT, Rather Than Phone and C...
by CaptSpify on Wednesday April 05, 2017 @04:10PM
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> If you had the Play Store on Ubuntu Phone you would probably also go there a lot more often.
Actually, I would probably not, though I can't deny I would be intrigued to have it as an option. I am able to set up most of the things that I would want via something like apt, or shell scripts or similar
Re:Growing Ubuntu for Cloud and IoT, Rather Than Phone and C...
by jhasse on Thursday April 06, 2017 @03:16AM
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How would you hack a navigation app with shell scripts?
Mostly being able to find OOTB tools that I want. I use f-droid on my android and I usually end up just going back to the play store to find anything worthwhile.
The Ubuntu phone gives me a real OS that I can just "apt-get install" something, then make a shell-script or something similar to fix my problem. Android's shell-system is a joke, which makes sense as they don't really want it to be usable. Ubuntu's shell system is much better, which means I can fix the problems that I come across myself.
EDIT: I can even use my existing scripts and tools that I have for my desktop on my ubuntu phone. It may be more accurate to say that I want a "Linux" phone, than a "FOSS" phone, but, I'd like it to be both.