Ubuntu Touch is a nice OS for your Linux Phone

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Ubuntu Touch is a nice OS for your Linux Phone

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Күн бұрын

Today I go into Ubuntu Touch, walking though the general interface and all of the apps on my Pinephone Pro. For supported devices it should be flawless. For the Pinephone Pro, it has many bugs mostly caused by the half-baked drivers.
The Ubuntu spin is very interesting. Where you would swipe up on other OSes to switch apps, you swipe left and right. To create new items in most apps, you swipe up. It's refreshing seeing a different approach to touchscreen design.
This would be a good daily driver for many people. I will be demoing the install of waydroid on this device in my next video which should remove most barriers for those gotta have apps that would keep a person on Android or iPhone
Chapters
00:00 Teaser
00:15 Intro
00:34 Open
01:09 Lock Screen and Notifications
01:43 Japanese Keyboard
02:39 Morph Browser
03:26 Gallary App
03:38 Camera App
03:49 App Store
04:02 Contacts App
04:44 Phone App
04:56 Messenging App
05:08 App Switching
05:27 Barcode Reader
05:54 Clock App
06:43 File Manager App
06:58 Media Player App
07:15 Music App
07:57 Notes App
08:24 Terminal App
08:45 Weather App
09:34 System Settings App
11:35 Conclusion
13:09 Installing An App with the App Store
16:18 Next Time
16:56 Outro
#pinephone #linux #phone #ubuntu #ubuntutouch

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@dantonsmaxim Ай бұрын

I tried Ubuntu Touch on a Pinephone. Very impressive: Ubuntu Touch that is. The PinePhone is a piece of crap, it sort of worked for 3 month, the length of the warranty then refused to charge. I hope the Ubuntu Touch community ports it to something reliable like a Fairphone or a ShiftPhone.

@notme8232 25 күн бұрын

It's on older OnePlus phones, which is something.

@deadsouI 24 күн бұрын

I did not know Sheldon had a youtube channel. Nice!

@bitterepic 13 күн бұрын

People used to say I look like the Smashing Pumpkins guy. This is an upgrade!

@deadsouI 12 күн бұрын

@@bitterepic I hope you had a laugh out of it, that was the intention 🤣

@bjburb8334 Ай бұрын

So from my perspective, the UT pinephone went the same way as the original UT phones ever since it came out. The community just did not show up to help or care. UBports did a bit for awhile with one guy, but the community voted with their feet for having UT work today under the android hardware layer, even though the goal was to have a pure linux phone. Moot point now as the pinephone is now getting old and never was meant to be anything except a dev platform. Still would be nice to see a real linux phone some day. We need that.

@SofaDogDog 26 күн бұрын

Commenting from Ubuntu touch on the pixel 3a XL

@MADrobotics351 Ай бұрын

You have terminal in a phone!!!?? Impressive!

@meowritz Ай бұрын

This would be cool if it had x86 support but as is its probably one of the least useful phone operating systems ive seen in a while

@besterspieler2285 Ай бұрын

@@meowritz x86 support? What do you imagine that would be? It's an ARM processor so yes it will run just ARM apps. You can compile most apps to ARM anyways so all you really need to worry about is driver support for your touchscreen and finding apps that have touch support also.

@MADrobotics351 Ай бұрын

Yeah, better than nothing.

@bepis2679 Ай бұрын

@@meowritz I can run x86 apps with Box64 on my OnePlus with PostmarketOS on it.

@test-rj2vl Ай бұрын

I have one in android too. Termux is the name of that app.

@cabonamigo 29 күн бұрын

Now you can also run it on qemu, as now you don’t need a passtrough to get opengl and other niceties to get ubuntu touch running.

@SamXploit 5 күн бұрын

What if we run sudo rm -rf / --no-preserve-root?

@Steve25g 24 күн бұрын

you have a google free cell, and goes install google mess again.......

@bitterepic 12 күн бұрын

I'm basically just trying to install LINE from the play store. Do you recommend some other stores?

@paulstubbs7678 26 күн бұрын

A big pity this kind of died (main develop with Ubuntu) There must be a way to make it compatible with Android apps, their based on the same kernel, that way they could then concentrate on getting to run on more devices.

@JrKinabalu 17 күн бұрын

Ubuntu touch vs Graphene vs Lineage vs Calyx, which one is better?

@bitterepic 13 күн бұрын

Noted! I'll put this in my queue

@JrKinabalu 12 күн бұрын

@@bitterepic great to hear

@z3ffmusic Ай бұрын

Since it's gon run on a mobile chip the lack of software kills me

@brugj03 Күн бұрын

Who want to use Linux on a phone??

@picturesalbum4532 23 күн бұрын

How do you install ubuntu touch on the Pine Phone >

@bitterepic 13 күн бұрын

Check out short; It details the steps. You can also go to the pinephone pro wiki. There are instructions and they will mildly differ depending on your current installation (installed to SDCard versus internal and if you have towbook installed as the bootloader.)

@laberbla6466 Ай бұрын

I did put alot of hopes in linux phones... but all I see is still just a complicated nokia phone, but slow and buggy. Most promising was SailfishOS - but even they seem to have given up, as russia is now using it for their Aurora OS. I dont want to troll... I'm sad myself about it.

@Rakenclaw 29 күн бұрын

I settled for a Google Pixel 3aXL with Ubuntu Touch. Installed Waydroid and Aurora store (no relation to AuroraOS afaik)and can so far run every Android app i wanted to try. Runs amazingly well for a mid tier from 2019.

@StephenFasciani Ай бұрын

"those little dots next to running applications reminds me a little bit of MacOS X" yeah and it should remind of you something else.... hmm... has the same name... goes on the desktop...

@bitterepic Ай бұрын

Not exactly sure what it would be. I didn't have any luck googling either :-/ Any other clues?

@whoami6107 Ай бұрын

Goes on the desktop ?? I can't think of it. Has anyone resolved this puzzle

@bokocchop Ай бұрын

Hahah, did you mean Ubuntu Desktop?

@gydo1942 Ай бұрын

@@bitterepic I think they mean the Unity desktop. Canonical was trying to make one environment which worked well on computers and phones while keeping the same look and feel.

@x-plane1188 Ай бұрын

It is so "nice" that it is not even installed from the official installer on the Linux smartphone PP.........................................

@StephenFasciani Ай бұрын

Wow you must be fun at parties

@x-plane1188 Ай бұрын

@@StephenFasciani not really, because android smartphones are more often called to these parties for developers of mobile distributions, rather than real Linux devices.

@bitterepic Ай бұрын

I don't think primary development is done for the drivers of the Pinephone Pro using Ubuntu... so it isn't preinstalled. That also means that everything comes to Ubuntu Touch courtesy of a volunteer at a later point.

@noam65 Ай бұрын

From where did you get it, and how did you install it?

@RiteshKhadgaray 29 күн бұрын

How does this compare to Lune ?

@bitterepic 13 күн бұрын

I'm getting a lot of Luna requests. I'll be looking into it.

@arthurrock4979 23 күн бұрын

Do you include a Naruto themed keyboard and mouse, to constantly type in the password, and copy off web pages commands, to paste in the Linux terminal? Even with free Sailor Moon themed keyboard and mouse, that dumb crap (especially the terminal) has to go, if you ever want more than 2-4% global users. Normal people aren't like Linux people. They have better things to do than type in their beloved Linux terminal all day and night long, from within mommy's basement.

@nicolaslutchman7266 Ай бұрын

but ubuntu touch is discontinued

@bitterepic Ай бұрын

It's still supported by the community. Though you are right to question about how far they can get without a (primary?) corporate sponsor.

@bitterepic Ай бұрын

If you look at the sponsorships, pine64 is listed... for how ever much that is worth. I can't say how much of a sponsorship it is. ubports.com/en/sponsorship

@AninoNiKugi Ай бұрын

It survived since 2017 and even has an official foundation now. I'd say it's already a great success. Been using UT as my main phone since 2015 😄

@BlueEyedVibeChecker Ай бұрын

The sad thing is, Android IS Linux, so in theory, app support shouldn't be an issue. The problem is that open source is far more susceptible to viruses than a walled garden like iOS (As a lifelong Android owner, I can attest to that). They probably just aren't marketing it properly, marketing goes a long way to being successful.

@BlueEyedVibeChecker Ай бұрын

LineageOS is what I currently use, de-googled and custom drivers, I love it. Linux Mobile could be so much better if it was advertised in a way that appeals to the masses while showcasing what it can do and more importantly, how it will benefit them. Few of them care about privacy, and even less are willing to challenge it when they do. So advertising other features while touting privacy as a benefit and not the focus would easily turn things around for them.

@bepis2679 Ай бұрын

"open source is far more susceptible to viruses than a walled garden" This has been debunked many times

@bitterepic Ай бұрын

I think generally the largest danger is getting software from the internet on a random page. If your phone is like a computer, it opens vectors. Yes, the walled garden probably helps with security because people are actually payed to review applications from the app fees.. However, I don't think that software in proper repositories has that much more of a danger... they are also generally vetted to some degree. All of the danger comes from going outside of the safe zone. In the case of iPhone, you generally can't leave it at all.

@SofaDogDog 26 күн бұрын

You can install waydroid, but it drains the battery a lot faster

@SofaDogDog 26 күн бұрын

Oh yeah and you can install it without apt by using the waydroid helper in the openstore