Does anybody use Ubuntu Touch as their daily driver? If not what other OS could you recommend.

Im looking to de googlefy as much as I can and also looking to have more freedom with what I can / cannot do with my own phone.

I have a fairphone 5, graphene isn’t supported and I don’t think I want /e/os.

Open to suggestions however I won’t be able to change hardware.

      • Zak@lemmy.world
        9·
        16 days ago

        I’m very experienced with desktop Linux, and I recently installed PostmarketOS on an older phone. It and Ubuntu Touch are derived from traditional desktop Linux and have the potential to run the same apps.

        It’s not there yet for people asking questions like the ones you are. I wouldn’t even say it’s there yet for people like me as a primary phone. The set of apps designed for mobile is minimal and not necessarily feature-complete. Hardware support is partial on most supported phones. Apps not specifically designed for a phone screen are not a good experience at all. Sometimes parts of the OS crash.

        LineageOS, on the other hand is Android. It’s designed for phones, and it will work pretty much like the Android your phone came with. It does not come with Google apps and services by default, which reduces the selection of third-party apps that work out of the box. You can add MicroG for an open source implementation of most of those Google services, which will make most third-party apps work while still keeping your phone Google-free.

          • sorghum@sh.itjust.works
            3·
            16 days ago

            Just off the top of my head, they had hired a registered sex offender (sexual battery of a child) and didn’t warn any other employees about it. It didn’t come to light until he defaced another open source project’s wiki. The normal annoyances seem minor by comparison to that which are snap and (was) unity desktop, but unity hasn’t been a thing for a while.

      • ByteMe@lemmy.world
        3·
        16 days ago

        Well, it’s android so it has a much better app support, better UI, it’s more stable and it’s more familiar than Linux on phones