Hey now, I promise nothing, BUT I already have a source for the recipes…

Just in time! I’m finishing my first year of uni this week, and just added a GTK or Qt app to my TODO list for the summer. While I found myself preferring Qt over GTK, I will still save this post and hopefully come back to you in a few weeks. Cheers,

So Postmarket, Droidian, Mobian, Ubuntu Touch, and who else?

Yeah, but actual Linux, even immutable, still feels more open. I don’t like the default look and feel of the system? There’s only so much I can do on Android, while on mobile Linux, I can even install SXMO, which is a mobile tiling window manager.

Adding to that, I’m not sure if it’s just me, but Android, even with root, feels so restrictive compared to a Linux distro. A good example is that I tried to remove a system file the other day (notification sounds, I hated them and wanted them gone for good) but even when I found what the file was, I couldn’t delete it using conventional methods aka file managers. I even tried using Zarchiver with root privileges, and it failed. The same happened when I had to deal with recent Android versions making the Android/obb dir read-only. The only way I could access these is via Termux and that is just kinda disappointing for a system that claims to be supposedly open.

Now, I’m not expecting this to be possible on mobile Linux, but the expectations there are different.

Anyways, rant aside, what I’m really saying is I’m excited for Mobile Linux, specifically Plasma Mobile (as I already tried Phosh and it was pretty good, but I haven’t got a device Plasma Mobile). I hope that I can daily drive it one day, just using Waydroid for some apps like WhatsApp, Banking Apps, and other essential proprietary apps.