Taking the plunge
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I've been dithering and hesitating to give Ubuntu Touch a spin for months, and the obscene Google monopoly's decision to kill off deGoogled ROMs and open-source repos finally pushed me over the edge.
I've ordered a Fairphone 5, onto which I'll install Ubuntu Touch, and hopefully I will make it my new daily driver. For the things I need that don't exist in the OpenStore, I intend to start developing for Ubuntu Touch.
I suppose it had to happen one day. Google made it today. Wish me luck
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@O.o.
Welcome!
I made this choice a year and a half ago and I have never regretted it.
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@Vlad-Nirky Thanks!
Well, I'm just concerned that I won't be able to use my bank's Android authenticator app - although I'm 99% sure it will work in Waydroid, because it already does in Waydroid on my ARM64 laptop.
The other thing I'm concerned about is, Waydroid too will be impacted by Google's shenanigans eventually, since it's LineageOS, so I'm not really sure switching to Ubuntu Touch is a long-term solution compared to keeping my now-unsupported deGoogled cellphone anyway. So I'm fully expecting to have to buy a small cheapo regular Android smartphone at some point just to be able to do banking. But that's hardly Ubuntu Touch's fault: this is squarely Google's. And there's not much anybody can do about it at this point.
Aside from that, I have a fairly peculiar setup to access my IMAP server at home that I'm fairly sure nothing in Ubuntu Touch will support.
And I have a bunch of NFC-based automation and encryption software going on on my CalyxOS cellphone that I expect I will have to port to Ubuntu Touch myself, because it's such a niche application that I'm pretty sure nobody else will do it for me
