I mainly use my phone for messaging (ie. Signal, Whatsapp etc), web browsing/social media (forums, lemmy, bluesky etc), and video viewing (jellyfin, alt youtube frontends, and netflix)

Are all these things possible on a linux phone like a Pinephone?

    • FundMECFS@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOP
      5·
      1 day ago

      Okay that’s a dealbreaker for me to be honest. I basically used all the social capital I had to get all my friends and family to start using Signal, I can’t just stop using it ahha.

      I assumed Signal and FOSS apps would run fine in an android container of something. Is that not the case?

      • OhYeah@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        1·
        1 hour ago

        I’ve heard success stories of downloading the android version of signal to create an account, and then the linux desktop version for daily use, then linking the linux version on the android version. Depends on how good of a waydroid setup you can get working, there also seems to be a translation layer in the works that might be worth looking into

      • wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works
        5·
        1 day ago

        You can run Signal on Waydroid yes, last I tried (about a year ago) the on screen keyboard didn’t work right, and there were issues with Push notifications. Maybe things have improved since, but nonetheless it’s a pretty crappy experience.