@Maik thanks!

@ufoddos said in Recommendations for Ubuntu Touch: I dislike Android because it's closed, increasingly sluggish, has a bloated design, a virtual machine mechanism, consumes a lot of power, has excessively high device requirements, pushes system junk, and isn't a true Linux distribution. I noticed you only use the forum to rant about and bash android and other OS's which isn't really adding anything useful and it's getting annoying. This doesn't get you anywhere, spreads a negative vibe which the community doesn't need and people start to feel uncomfortable. It's also not very inviting to other people who want to join the community and forum and could hold them back to register. Let me tell you that Android isn't consuming a lot of power at all but it's the (google) services that run in the background and free apps from the Play Store that consume a lot. Volla OS, which is Android (Lineage OS) based and used on the Volla Phones, is a de-googled privacy focused mobile OS and as a test i installed it once on my Volla Phone X and Volla Phone 22. The battery lasted about a week on one charge with simple basic usage of the phones and wifi constantly on. The OS has no google services running in the background and that's why it lasted longer to drain the battery. The Nokia 6.2 with Android that i have lasted 1.5 to 2 days on a single charge with the same basic usage. Ubuntu Touch is secure because it's a immutable OS, it's already privacy focused and doesn't have anything to do with government censorship and surveillance at all. There are already web apps available from the Open Store and you are able to create your own. I get the impression you didn't use Ubuntu Touch yet and didn't read any documentation or info about what UT actually is. Maybe it's time you gave it a try and learn about it.

@theprivacydad I guess you would have gotten a much better experience 6 months later: and that's an unfortunate coincidence that your testing/review happened just few days before some of the major needs (Signal, KeePass) were released to the Openstore , and some of the issues you mentioned is just about to be addressed: like modern and stable web-browsing. Anyway you will always be welcome to do an update or a new review in few month/years!

for app - CinnyUT for developer - danfro who is always very helping for other users. Thank you.

@idonthatevests Thank you very much for your answer Actually, I already have a Degoogled Android on Fairphone I wonder what UT do more for privacy I have not read the page refered by @lakotaubp : it will probably answer my question Thanks again Thomas

Aaand today is working with no problem. May be related to football, the end of the world or something

@gpatel-fr said in Crazy stuff: sudo snap install signal-desktop: @pparent Yes I ack that they are open because I think I understand why. The idea is here but solving it is another story because there is always an effort for every result and sometimes the result is not worth it. Well I don't think you should be so pessimistic: First because if they are showing some interest in porting their app, I don't know why suppose they are not willing to really do so. Second because Qt6 is supposed to enable cross-platform development easily. Third because you don't how the userbase of UT will evolve in the next years, let's how it could grow significantly making it more attractive to port some apps. Of course the port might not happen overnight.

@projectmoon Really easy, 10 minutes to understand what was expected of me, 1 minute to install and it works immediately. I saw some minor bugs, mostly display issues (especially on an external monitor). In any case, it works, it's fast, and ad-free! Two problems solved in one, thanks! (Nothing against Morph, but it still needs a little optimization.)

Just wanted to mention here, that Signal UT should now be a usable client for basic chatting, and will keep improving in the coming 2-3 month: https://open-store.io/app/signalut.pparent

@uxes IIRC with fscrypt in place, just replacing shadow breaks the protectors of fscrypt, leaving the system with a broken state. Also that's the dog biting it's tail: decrypting based on the password while the file containing the password is locked, that doesn't work. Regarding bluez data: that would break bluetooth at the greeter, which might be required for some usecases.

PRIZES It will be a bit of a challenge to organise prizes as the community to spread out across the world and not everyone is able to contribute in the same way. For this reason, I think it would be good to keep it open to suggestions and anyone can put an offer on the table. Some ideas: offer to tip the winner on their librepay account if you are an artist, offer to design a logo for their app offer to translate their app to your language offer to write a profile page for the winners to go on the UT website (Like an interview about the developer) offer to write a review of the winners app (like a show case page on the UT website)

Hi @Charly. Welcome to the UBports community.