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Hackbratenyesterday at 10:37 PM2 repliesview on HN

I've been daily driving a Linux phone for three years. The suffering was real. It's mostly gone now, I love it and will definitely never go back.


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seba_dos1yesterday at 10:55 PM

I've been daily driving Linux phones for the last 18 years and I would never switch away. Sure, at the beginning it required you to make it your hobby, but you were being rewarded for it. Sometimes when I'm looking at Android/iOS devices being used over someone's shoulder I'm quite horrified at what I see and what people consider normal these days and so glad that my phone works for me rather than anyone else.

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softfalconyesterday at 10:49 PM

That sounds very interesting to hear about!

What diminished the day-to-day difficulty for you? Is it because the ecosystem became more mature, or did you "crack the code" for how to interface with everything you needed from your phone? Is your use-case for a phone wildly different from that of a typical user?

It's really cool to hear that someone is successfully daily driving it and making this ecosystem work for them!