• CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org
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      If you don’t care about installing any particular mobile software, that would work.

      LineageOS is the current game in town otherwise, unless you want a Pixel, in which case there’s options like GrapheneOS.

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        I mean, to some extent: waydroid actually works quite well, if you don’t mind their security issues, a few apps also work with android translation layer. My main troubles are actually with virtual keyboards: there’s nothing as good as heliboard so far, although the new plasma keyboard with custom layouts is usable

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          Interesting. I’ve tried Linux phones, they’re not a bad idea per se. It looks like Waydroid is literally just emulating LineageOS, though, so I do start to wonder what the point is.

          I suppose one advantage would be you can actually hack your system a bit, instead of having everything locked into the ROM.

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            It’s more like a chroot, not exactly emulation. The point, at least for me, used to be that some apps for android have better ux than their Linux counterparts (mostly newpipe vs freetube and antennapod vs kasts), but since both of those work reasonably well in ATL, I don’t really use it much now.

            Compared to lineage, I quite like being able to run desktop software as well; nix is a godsend here, since they compile many packages for arm64 as well as x86. Although, to be fair, I haven’t tried running nixos in chroot alongside android; mb a viable option as well