[lupyuen]

That's what I thought too... A locked down walled garden!

But the more I probed, the more it looked like plain Ubuntu with Wayland and AppArmor, without X11 :-)

Check out what I found: https://lupyuen.github.io/pinetime-rust-mynewt/articles/wayl...

[HugThem]

That is a really long article. Looks like a lot of work.

I will wait until there is a phone where I can just open a terminal and type apt install whatever I want.

[vinay427]

I'm not as familiar with UBPorts/Ubuntu Touch, but you can do this with Debian on the PinePhone, or use other package managers like Pacman with Arch/Manjaro. I think you're conflating the phone with UBPorts, which is just the preloaded OS on one edition of the phone. There's nothing Ubuntu-specific about the PinePhone.

[solarkraft]

Most of the other distributions allow just that, this is just Ubuntu being special again.

[josteink]

> I will wait until there is a phone where I can just open a terminal and type apt install whatever I want.

This phone can boot any Linux distro you like from SD-card or usb.

That’s pretty unique and you really don’t get much more open than that.

[kop316]

Mobian on the pinephone does exactly that. There is nothing stopping someone from a) flashing the eMMC directly to a new distro or b) flashing it to an SD card to try it out.

[lupyuen]

Haha thanks for checking it out :-)