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Greetings from Florida, USA,
I have installed Ubuntu Touch a couple of times already and I have to say its a lot more stable this time. As soon as I can find a phone this works on to make calls with Volte I will be daily driving it and dumping Android for good.Unfortunately I don't have any coding experience to contribute, but I do work in IT as a tech and have a few decades of troubleshooting and I want to help out. I am very much over Android/IOS at this point, and feel the time is right for a Linux phone to really shake things up given the current state of mobile OS. Plenty of experience with Ubuntu desktop having daily'ed it from Warty Warthog to Yakkety Yak, and I am still on Linux desktop, just another distro btw...
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@Futura said in Welcome to the UBports community! Introduce yourself here!:
Greetings from Florida, USA,
I have installed Ubuntu Touch a couple of times already and I have to say its a lot more stable this time. As soon as I can find a phone this works on to make calls with Volte I will be daily driving it and dumping Android for good.Unfortunately I don't have any coding experience to contribute, but I do work in IT as a tech and have a few decades of troubleshooting and I want to help out. I am very much over Android/IOS at this point, and feel the time is right for a Linux phone to really shake things up given the current state of mobile OS. Plenty of experience with Ubuntu desktop having daily'ed it from Warty Warthog to Yakkety Yak, and I am still on Linux desktop, just another distro btw...
Greetings, Futura, and welcome to the UBports community!
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Greetings from Montreal, QC, CA
I'm Wolfgang, 22 y/o, originally from the USA, studying Chemistry in Montreal.
Until now I've mostly been a desktop Linux user but recently started using Ubuntu Touch on my google pixel 3a as a daily driver and am loving it!
Thank you so much to all of the developers! This is my second time trying to install it and this time it really feels functional as a daily driver. -
I probably should have introduced myself here first. Hi, I am The Privacy Dad and I write a blog under that pseudonym (theprivacydad.com). I've been writing since 2022 about my experiences with privacy software, platforms, devices and good habits for me and for my family.
Last month I bought a second-hand Pixel 3aXL in order to try out UT. I have tried out a lot of mobile operating systems and feel excited and hopeful learning about Ubuntu Touch.
I cannot contribute technically, but I like to write and edit.
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@theprivacydad Welcome, TPD.
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@wolfgang1 Welcome, Wolfgang.
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@wolfgang1 Welcome! Glad it's suiting your needs! Just note that the Pixel 3a doesn't have VoLTE working (some people are trying, but it seems tough), so it (mostly) won't work for phone calls if you're back in the USA, where 3G is shut down. Some areas might have 2G.
3G will sunset here too. Rogers, already, Telus (+Koodo, Public Mobile) Dec 2025, Bell (+Virgin, Lucky) Dec, 2026. Not sure about Videotron/Freedom. -
@wally luckily I mostly call through whatsapp and discord which can use wifi. didn't realize 3G was going down in canada, and so soon no less. maybe ill get a burner phone number and use that for calls or get a phone that supports VoLTE if there are any that have succeeded
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Hi, I'm AetheralMeowstic. I came here because Android's about to implode.
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@AetheralMeowstic Welcome, I hope you'll find what you are looking for here!
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@AetheralMeowstic Welcome!
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@wolfgang1 If you're getting by fine for now, could make sense to wait and see how the dust settles on VoLTE rollout. And if McGill gives you any free time, you'll find folks on the Forum trying to make it work in Pixel 3a and you could be part of it. But yes, there's already great success with VoLTE on some devices.
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Greetings from Toronto, ON, Canada!
My name is Kai, and I am a German living and working in Toronto as software developer.
I came across Ubuntu Touch searching for alternative mobile operating systems. I got interested, but I do not own a supported device, so I am currently working on a new port.
Kai
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@k.nacke said in Welcome to the UBports community! Introduce yourself here!:
Welcome/Willkommen Kai.
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If @k.nacke got banned because of his username: I think it was not supposed to be a stupid word play. When you search the web, it seems that there is actually a German living in Canada named "Kai Nacke" and he is also active on GitHub.
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@johndoe said in Welcome to the UBports community! Introduce yourself here!:
If @k.nacke got banned because of his username
That user is not banned.
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@Moem My user was actually banned. But looks like an admin un-banned it. And yeah, it's really my name.
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@k.nacke said in Welcome to the UBports community! Introduce yourself here!:
My user was actually banned. But looks like an admin un-banned it.
Oh, sorry! I didn't know.
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Greetings from The Netherlands,
My name is Jan and I like the idea to have fun with a Linux based mobile OS. Certainly with the current developments in the (tech) world. A couple of months ago I started actively to de-google. When I reduced the amount of apps the switch to another android 'taste' would be easier. I bought a Nothing CMF 1 and installed e/os. I host my own nextcloud instance, and this combination works like a charm. I already work with linux boxes for a long time. When I read more about UbuntuTouch and PostmarketOS, I liked the idea to buy an FairPhone4, and do the 'next step'
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@MrRoughwood Greetings, Jan.
