Linux-ready, made-in-Germany “Volla Phone” succeeds on Kickstarter

Re:Linux-ready, made-in-Germany “Volla Phone” succeeds on Ki... by megous on Wednesday March 04, 2020 @08:41AM (#22483627)

OS is not a bottleneck. And to me, being able to run existing desktop software on the Phone when docked would be pretty much all that would be useful about this.

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Re:Linux-ready, made-in-Germany “Volla Phone” succeeds on Ki... by mojuba on Wednesday March 04, 2020 @09:00AM (#22483769)

But that's my point: the reason it doesn't exist to date is the OS, not because nobody thought about it. I'm sure a lot of people did, some even tried to build a device. A more lightweight and efficient OS would make it more feasible.

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Re:Linux-ready, made-in-Germany “Volla Phone” succeeds on Ki... by megous on Wednesday March 04, 2020 @10:02AM (#22484275)

There's a ton of various lightweight DE's for GNU/Linux for example. I can run Arch Linux/i3wm just fine on my PinePhone. Actually being a highly portable Arch Linux/i3wm device is what PinePhone does best at the moment for me. lol

And people certainly thought about it. Phone manufacturers just actively work against people running alternative OSes on their phones, by locking up their devices, and making it annoying to unlock them, and by not respecting GPL, and releasing code with huge delays and in a very halfassed manner, and by ignoring calls to upstream their code.

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