But how do you already do it on GNU/Linux? You can do the same.
Of course you can, but is it obvious and user friendly?
Re:Your Phone Is Your Castle
by entropicdrifter on Monday September 14, 2020 @02:35PM
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Linux phones are never going to be especially obvious or user friendly. To get those types of features you need a boatload of investment that the open source community can't hope to muster in any sort of reasonable timeframe.
For now the choice is privacy vs user friendliness. Currently rooted/de-Googled Android provides one of the best compromises for the average privacy-minded power user, but maybe in a few more years these Linux phones will be mature enough to give Android more of a run for their money.
> To get those types of features you need a boatload of investment that the open source community can't hope to muster in any sort of reasonable timeframe.
The Linux desktop is an obvious counterexample. If the open source community can develop user-friendly desktop environments (GNOME, KDE Plasma, Xfce) they can surely develop user-friendly mobile stacks.
>Everything is open source. You have all the power to study what your phone is doing. Standard GNU/Linux tools should work.
Yes, for the base system, however for third-party stuff, it would still be nice to prevent the apps from phoning home and stuff.