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by peter5878 2260 days ago
I have been using UBports on my primary phone (Nexus 5) for the past year. It has been mostly great. All the expected things such as phone calls, text and web browsing work just fine. They have an app store with a fair number of apps, although obviously nowhere near to what is available for Android. Updates for the OS have been quite regular every few months. I have previously been using LineageOS on Nexus 5x, but personally I find UBports better. It is much closer to a real Linux distribution than Android, while still being a pretty usable mobile OS.
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Apps are just webapps though and most of them are very poorly made. This has been my experience on mako.
Not all of them are webapps see https://open-store.io/?type=app
Yes but 99 percents are.
Not really. If you filter by the "App" category on OpenStore you get 18 pages of results and if you filter by "WebApp" you also get 18 pages of results. So, about 50% are webapps.
Because the filter you use includes all kind of crappy games. if you focus on other categories, the percentage is much higher.
Aren't most "apps" redundant considering you can install a program the way you would for a Linux distro? There are resources going back ages. I suppose they aren't designed for mobile, but could be tweaked.