The Privacy Dad's review of Ubuntu Touch

theprivacydad

@Keneda I think the main thing is that the stable channel should come up as the default. Being new to UT, I clicked right past that menu and ended up having a few puzzling days with UT, before figuring out what had happened.

kugiigi

I think this is a recent issue on the installer. I believe it defaults to stable before.

bunt7

@theprivacydad

Thanks for sharing your experience with UT!

I also had a hard time in the beginning. It took me and a friend alone 3 days to install it.
With windows 10 we desperately failed.
To wait one week, before Xaomi opened the boot loader, it made things not easier.
On Linux Mint than we succeed.

With the community I made the same experience like you: they are very supportive.

After they told me about waydroid, things went easier. It made it possible, to use it as my daily smartphone.

I love the idea of a open source system, what is build neither on android nor iOS.
This is my motivation, to go thru the challenges and stay on UT.

My impression is, that there is a lot of potential with in the community and the developers.
I think, more sooner than later UT it will grow exponential.

In the last Q&A (176) Marius said, he will build a group, that sort out, how to optimize UT for the normal user.
I am confidant this will bring the system way more forward, in terms of usability.

theprivacydad

@bunt7 Thanks! What is your experience like using Waydroid daily? Does the battery go quicker?

theprivacydad

@kugiigi said in The Privacy Dad's review of Ubuntu Touch:

I think this is a recent issue on the installer. I believe it defaults to stable before.

I made the suggestion here: https://forums.ubports.com/topic/11285/suggestion-put-stable-channel-as-default-in-ubports-installer?_=1761672248369

pparent

@theprivacydad said in The Privacy Dad's review of Ubuntu Touch:

Signal

By the way a Signal app was just published. It is in early state of development though, and will improve progressively in the coming month.

Here:

bunt7

@theprivacydad
With the change to UT I also changed to the Xiaomi pocco X3. The batterie of the Pocco is huge in compare to my smartphone before. So I am happy anyway.

theprivacydad

@pparent Awesome!

Keneda

@theprivacydad
You're right.
But also, the name is confusing.
Some may think "daily channel" is for "daily device"...

pparent

@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!