• tempest@lemmy.ca
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    5 hours ago

    The main issue will be application support.

    Linux running on the desktop in 2025 is helped immensely by everything being web based. So long as you have a browser you are fine for a lot of general computing.

    The phone space is ruled by apps. The phone makers and the companies developing apps prefer it this way.

    Getting a banking app, or Uber or Facebook Messenger to work on a Linux phone is going to be a massive pain in the ass (ignoring the rest of the OS which is definitely not even close to useable for the general public).

    I would love a Linux phone but we are so far away.

    • pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip
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      2 hours ago

      The phone space is ruled by apps. The phone makers and the companies developing apps prefer it this way.

      That’s true, but for everything non-free, they always end up having a perfectly working web app that will accept my money.