Key Points:
- Ubuntu Touch offers privacy and control, is free from Google data tracking, and is perfect for privacy-conscious users.
- Installation is straightforward with the UBports installer, even for unsupported devices, but app support can be limited.
- Ubuntu Touch provides good battery life and performance on newer devices but lacks app variety compared to Android and iOS.
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I wonder why test this on an 11 year old phone?
I have it running on a Pixel 3a and it’s definitely smooth, but it still stutters once in a while. It feels slower than Android to me, but not much.
Battery life is indeed excellent, though mine doesnt seem to fast charge.
The camera app was the standout feature to me. The pictures i take look every bit as good as those from Android. I expected the app to be clunky or to have bad colors, but that is not the case at all.
Edit: Pixel 3a not 3
I thought Ubuntu touch wasn’t supported on pixel 3?
My bad it’s a 3a
This is about installing on a Nexus 5 which is from 2013. Sounds painful.
And it will not get upgraded to 20.04, it will stay on 16.04. My biggest issue was that I could not do much with it. It was only a bit better than a dumbphone. Without apps, every mobile OS dies and back in the day I could not even get Signal working. It was a pain to set up webdav for contacts sync and when I gave up and wanted to use my own nextcloud, it refused to work because of my https cert…
I hope one day we’ll find a way to get banking apps working through Waydroid or something else. And by we, I mean people who are way more techy than me😅
I feel like it’s the only thing which would prevent a lot of people from using Linux every day on their phones.
Banking apps and having the card on the phone, those two are the only things keeping me from using a private OS
Ubuntu Touch is optimized to reduce unnecessary background processes, making your phone last longer on a single charge.
Wait… did he just say that Ubuntu runs faster than Android on an Android phone?
So, lineage is the best option for now?
Are there any other useful touch distros? Ubuntu is not very renowned in the privacy realm at the moment.
I tried and bricked my S10+
Soft bricked, can probably recover but have not got the time to bring it back.
This fear keeps me back to flash custom ROM on my phone! Plus, I can not afford to have those banking apps not working!
I might have done something wrong, but my banking apps never stopped working on LineageOS.
If your phone is fully supported and not on the fringe of whatever project your interested in is, you’re not in much trouble most of the time.
Custom ROMs are pretty safe to flash nowadays as long as you follow the instructions.
Banking apps don’t work on custom ROMs only in certain countries.
