@kugiigi said in Things which made me postpone buying another phone to try linux:
About the keyboard, not sure why your experience is like that. Lomiri, the system UI, supports keyboard navigation. It literally exists on desktop distros now and quite usable. Bluetooth can be wonky though so it's probably that.
That's interesting, how do you switch apps with keyboard for example? I've tried Alt+Tab, Super+Tab, Ctrl+Tab, with keyboard in Win/Mac/Android mode. Navigation was only possible with mouse, steering to the right edge of the screen the touch task switcher was triggered.
PS. I remember your reply about the experimental gestures from my earlier thread. In the end I didn't test it. Actually this remands me of a "gesture app" from a custom Android rom (perhaps it was in last Cyanogenmod) where it was possible to define your own gestures, for example swyping a Z, S, L, / , , O, 8 shape and attach it to an action or an app shortcut. IIRC it had to be one stroke shape, which was smoothed out to something simpler so you didn't have to swype it perfectly each time. That one was really handy.
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This feedback was about things rarely or never brought up. Usually people ask around for banking app support or app availability in general, OS stability, battery life. Things like these are either assumed as given and then comes disappointment, or it falls into 'not my use case' category.
I hope I helped people for whom it matters with OS choice decision, likewise gave an opportunity to consider improvements in these areas. As a software developer and Linux user I planned to address those things in some spare time. At this moment, no more having the phone, I'm not sure. I'll probably buy another FP if, and only if, I'll have the spare time ahead I'd want to spend on tinkering with the code.
I've seen the other thread 'Edge Cases'. That's a great initiative. IMO there are only 2 two things which make people move back to Android:
Bugs, i.e. OS stability
Limitations
a - daily app availability (most likely more than half of the users would have to carry around a second Android/IOS phone)
b - OS functionality limitations, like the things I listed in my first post
c - hardware limitation, For me FP 5 hardware is more than I need, not lacking anything except the camera, where it lacks terribly. The Android OS camera app post process the pictures heavily so it gets them a bit better, but overall it's all very basic/mediocre to the point that I'd love to shed another $200 for a good class camera replacement, but Fairphone doesn't offer anything.
