Re:Maru OS – Your phone is your PC
by msgodel on Tuesday July 29, 2025 @11:08PM
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I ran Ubuntu Touch briefly on a Nexus 5 as well. IIRC the two issues I had were:
1) calls and MMS not working well.
2) Instead of a normal GNU/Linux OS Ubuntu Touch tried really hard to have an Android style immutable OS. Kind of the worst of both worlds since you have a difficult to work with OS but without the app ecosystem of Android that some people believe makes it worth using.
After that I kind of just gave up on the idea that I owned my phone at all and a few years later I gave up carrying smartphones entirely.
1) calls and MMS not working well.
2) Instead of a normal GNU/Linux OS Ubuntu Touch tried really hard to have an Android style immutable OS. Kind of the worst of both worlds since you have a difficult to work with OS but without the app ecosystem of Android that some people believe makes it worth using.
After that I kind of just gave up on the idea that I owned my phone at all and a few years later I gave up carrying smartphones entirely.