Nominations are now open for the UBports Community Awards.
Since this is the first run at having these awards, I thought
its best to keep things a bit simple.
Here are the final two categories:

• Community favourite app
• Community favourite developer

Everyone can suggest up to two nominees for each category.
Nominations close on the evening of 1 Dec.
Leave your suggestions below.

For each nomination, indicate the category, nominee and a short paragraph about why you are nominating this person/app.

Prize: A large pizza for each category.

I thought it might be useful to have a list of snaps that run well on UT.
I will slowly populate this list as I try things.
Tested an FP5 focal 24.04

No success
= installed, seems to work, further testing needed
Works in desktop mode, fully functional
CLI tool (so it is convergent-ish)
Convergent(-almost)
My favourites

Issues with snaps on phone:
- No OSK
- Scaling issues
- audio issues

ladder
deepseek-r1 (painfully slow)
tldr
rsync
Terminal-parrot
nano-strict
htop
micro : requires '''--classic'''
clera
ponysay
asciiaquarium
clipboard
fzf
git-confined
yazi
procs
zellij : requires '''--classic''' (24.04)
midnight-rebooter
gdu

gnome-hitori
local send
evince
supertux
blanket :

app center
libreoffice
Deepseek
xournal++
alacritty: requires '''--classic'''
konsole: requires '''--classic'''
keepassxc
sublime-tex (24.04)
vivaldi (24.04)
Chromium (24.04)
Jabref
Inkscape
pinta
brave
leafpad
micropolis

clickable
duplicity
magnus
openscad
gimp
audacity
audacious
crypton
transmission
LXD
ollama
darktable

minetest
gnome-nibbles
gnome-chess
tuxfishing
supertuxkart
komikku
ubports-installer
opentyrian
alpaca
axolotl
sensor monitor
firefox
cozy
gnome-contacts
gnome-mahjongg
gnome-sudoku
gnome-calculator
gnome-clocks
gnome-weather
emoj
pydoro
frog
tux-paint
ghostty : requires '''--classic'''
opencv-demo-web
mission center
fingerpaint
celluloid
zenity

Could you add a segment to the 'show' where you give an example of how to get things done on UT?

I think many people need to figure out ways to work in UT since it is quite different from android but many of these ideas don't make their way to the 'general UT public'.

For example, there was a discussion about getting uwolf or firefox to sync passwords. This is a great alternative to the non-functioning password manager apps and makes life a lot easier.
Or maybe demo how to use ghostcloud.

I think these 'FYI' segments can help ease the transition for many people.

@keneda said in This Forum's software is horrible! :

BTW if you can't do some things here it's because your reputation is not already high enough.

I couldnt find how to increase reputation... There isnt any links on the landing page to guide new users on how use the platforw.

Ideas for Categories:

• Biggest OS bug squashed
• Favourite new app in the open store
• Community's favourite developer
• Favourite new app concept ( in the app store)
• Best new port

Update
Since this is the first run at having these awards, I thought
its best to keep things a bit simple.
Here are the final two categories:

• Community favourite app
• Community favourite developer

I would like to ask that you do a quick announcement for the 'Community Awards'.
Things have developed quite well with a lot of input from other community members.
This year we will have only two categories:

• Community favourite app
• Community favourite developer

The prize for each category:

• a large pizza (details TBD).
• a webpage mentioning your award and why your won (details TBD).

Nominations are open until the evening of 1 Dec. Each forum member can nominate two nominees for each category (here: https://forums.ubports.com/topic/11623/call-for-nominations-for-the-ubports-community-awards?_=1764437371137 )

The current nominees are as follows:

Community favourite app

• OSM scout server
• uWolf
• Morph QT6
• futify
• dekko
• Sapot
• Keeweb
• Podcat
• RockWork
• Teleports
• OpenStore
• Waydroid
• LogViewer

Community favourite developer

@fredldotme (Alfred E. Neumayer)
@lduboeuf (Lionel Duboeuf)
@alan_g (Alan Griffiths)
@vlad-nirky (Vlad Nirki)
@Fuseteam (Tobiyo Kuujikai)
@kugiigi (Kugi Eusebio)
@CiberSheep (Joan CiberSheep)
@thevancedgamer (Muhammad)
@peat_psuwit (Ratchanan)
@danfro (Daniel Frost)
@jonius (Jonathan Zeidler)

Prizes

Any one who wants to contribute to the prizes or make them more interesting is very very welcome to let us know what they have in mind.

@moem said in This Forum's software is horrible! :

You build up reputation by posting and getting upvotes on your posts.

I couldn't post because my reputation was too low.

@O.o.
I would need the same for Swedish BankID soon. I have tried to avoid waydroid for battery drain issues, but I will likely have no choice for Swedish banks.

@gpatel-fr I could not downgrade. The FP provided installer did not work so I went from A14 directly.

@wally sorry, misread the title!

Hello

I have an external harddrive that I use for as a portable 'home partition'. Its formatted with zfs and I have been using to to effortlessly move between using different computers (laptop, desktop, work) and have all my files all the time.
If I wanted to use it with an Ubuntu touch device, I would need to have a functioning zfs installation on the device. I heard in one of the podcasts that installing things via apt is not supported and the root partition only has 3GB of space.

Is it feasible/possible to install zfs on UT? I guess a snap installation of zfs is very unlikely.

@O.o. Thanks for sharing. Its great to see what others have done. The am/pm trick is a neat way to deal with the corners!

@messayisto I have not had any issues with it thus far.

Are there any formal instructions for setting up snap support?

I am organising a UBport Community Awards for the developers.

If you have suggestions for award categories, please let me know!

Current ideas for Categories:

• Biggest OS bug squashed
• Favourite new app in the open store
• Community's favourite developer
• Favourite new app concept ( in the app store)

Details about the planning can be found here:
https://forums.ubports.com/post/90354

@lsitongia with the installer you can install UT again and choose 'do NOT wipe data'. I had to do the same. it went smoothly. I lost no data, nothing broke.

I did not need to try again. When I opened the app all my google emails had arrived.

@johndoe
about the webpage and graphics; That would be greatly appreciated.
I will try to find out how one gets a page added to the UBports website.

Hello
I might have missed it. Is there an app for 'automatically' populating gitlab/github bug reporting?
For me at least, I would be more inclined report bugs if it were easier.
It would help you guys too because you could get the app to send logs etc that are necessary for examining the problem.

It would be good to have some clear advice to non-developer on how we can encourage work on stuff that we felt was needed.
Maybe the OS development should not be guided by ad-hoc money waving from the community, but if we wanted an app to be ported or if we needed a bug to be dealt with, it would be great to know how we can nudge some development in that direction.

This should not be an alternative to supporting UBports directly but it could be a way to supplement app development.

Maybe the first question should be: What is the UBports developers choice of platform for bug bounties?
How should be let the developers know that we want something addressed and we (the community) will organise the bounty.