• Optional@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    email? Browser? Chat? umm . . . weather? They do, y’know, run in linux.

    Now linux on a phone in the first place - fair enough, it’s really really unlikely.

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      are you taking the piss? or do you just not think people want to be able to run the stuff they’re used to?

      if i wanted a feature phone i’d buy a fucking second hand nokia

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        What the fuck is so special it doesn’t run on linux?

        Someone mentioned an OTP app, or password app - okay, but there’s many on linux, so that’d just be a preference for whatever it was. It would have to be something that isn’t browser-based. So - what’s so unforgivably irreplacable on android that people can’t live without?

        You’re in a thread about setting up a custom rom and you’re saying there’s something so unique, so proprietary that it can’t be experienced in a linux environment - fine. What is it? Microsoft Word? AutoCAD? phone versions, presumably? I dunno.

        I can’t think of anything, but you’re asking if I’m taking the piss because it’s incothievable anyone could be wondering what’s so irreplaceable about android. So - what’s the app you can’t live without?