PureTryOut

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[–] PureTryOut@lemmy.kde.social 1 points 23 hours ago

Thank you 🤗 I hope not too many people see us as obscure though...

[–] PureTryOut@lemmy.kde.social 5 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

It definitely makes it less interesting and feels the opposite of what Framework wants to do. I hope future models will be as replaceable and upgradable as their x86_64 machines.

[–] PureTryOut@lemmy.kde.social 6 points 4 days ago

Have you actually read the article? It mostly lists problems and reasons not to get a Tuxedo laptop. I'd advise to go for a Framework machine instead, they actually have good Linux support and do not require custom software written in Electron...

[–] PureTryOut@lemmy.kde.social 2 points 1 week ago

No, Lomiri. It is a succesor of Unity

[–] PureTryOut@lemmy.kde.social 4 points 1 week ago

Ubuntu Touch uses Lomiri (a successor of Unity), not GNOME.

[–] PureTryOut@lemmy.kde.social 6 points 1 week ago

Correction, hi postmarketOS dev here, we are using whatever the user wants. We ship Phosh, GNOME Mobile, Plasman Mobile, SXMO, Lomiri. We don't have just one interface.

[–] PureTryOut@lemmy.kde.social 5 points 1 week ago

Correction, hi postmarketOS dev here, we are using whatever the user wants. We ship Phosh, GNOME Mobile, Plasman Mobile, SXMO, Lomiri. We don't have just one interface.

[–] PureTryOut@lemmy.kde.social 4 points 3 weeks ago

You don't have to configure KDE you know. You can just keep the defaults like you're probably doing with GNOME.

[–] PureTryOut@lemmy.kde.social 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

You're right, you can't run the Android (or iOS app) twice. If you want a second device running WhatsApp you'll need the web app.

[–] PureTryOut@lemmy.kde.social 8 points 3 weeks ago

I definitely hope so, so far it's looking promising!

[–] PureTryOut@lemmy.kde.social 20 points 3 weeks ago

I think installing all those dependencies by hand is not a good solution in the long run.

Well, no. "In the long run" this gets packaged by distributions so you don't have to compile anything. Right now it's available for Alpine Linux and there is an AUR package for Arch.

Wasn’t there supposed to be a flatpack container to be downloaded somewhere?

There is a Flatpak (no c in that name!) base app available, and Newpipe has been packaged with that as a Flatpak, see https://flathub.org/apps/net.newpipe.NewPipe Ideally we get more stuff packaged up once more works but I don't think it's feasible to repackage everything out there so for a lot of applications you'll just have to have a locally installed ATL outside of Flatpak.

 

Since https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1gdhy7u/experimental_flathub_release_of_newpipe_on_linux/ got a bit of traction yesterday, this is WhatsApp straight from Meta running on Linux desktop using android-translation-layer.

android-translation-layer (ATL) is a Wine-like approach to run Android applications on Linux. Rather than running an Android container like for example Waydroid does this instead implements the Android API. Note that right now it's very much work in progress and almost no app will work yet, but the fact that they have apps like Newpipe and WhatsApp running already is very promising!

Join the Matrix chat at #android-translation-layer:matrix.org and follow along!

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