I don’t know why they made the background blur so subtle. Even I, as a non-UI/UX designer understand that readability is important. Apart from the slightly harsh edges, I think Liquid Glass looks solid. Way better than hideous flat design.
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When I first saw this… This is like a very very bad free Android icon pack. Makes the phone straight unusable. Can you actually switch to the normal “theme”? My wife unfortunately has an iPhone and I, as an IT guy in the family, usually get blamed for OS updates on her phone, whenever something becomes different. This won’t go down easily :)
what phone is that? is that what Apple’s liquid glass looks like?
This is only a Control center thing AFAIK.
Is that an iOS app? I’ve searched and found references to “control center” for multiple OS. I have no idea what phone or OS is shown in the picture and can’t guess by the comments, because I don’t know how many meta levels of snark are involved!
although locked down: both Android and iPhone use a unix-like/gnu-ish operating system… it’s not the Linux kernel though.
Android uses Linux as far as i know
well that makes it a lot easier:
Linux phones are already the most common phone.
(modified linux kernel but whatever).The Android kernel is based on an upstreamLinux Long Term Supported (LTS) kernel.
Holy fuck that looks like ass
It’s liquid ass
Guys. I have a samsung m30s. The problem with it is its usb port must be kept at a specific angle… So i bought a new phone.
Now I am thinking of installing Linux on it. How can I go about it?
I like plasma on my desktop.
TLDR: How to install Linux on Samsung M30s
Tbh, unless you want to suffer A LOT, the best option is to get any Android phone, install Termux and on top install any Linux distro you like (if you want easy mode, pay for Andronix which helps with installation).
Then you just run your Linux distro in a container on Android and view its virtual screen using a VNC viewer app.
That way you get a fully-working Android phone that can run most Linux apps without breaking your main phone use case. The only thing you are really lacking is low-level access because it’s running in a root-less proot container. So no hardware acceleration or other fancy hardware stuff.
Too In-Depth; Didn’t Research (Tid;Dr) response:
Can your bootloader be unlocked?
if no, no linux
if yes, is someone developing Ubuntu Touch, Manjaro Mobile, PostmarketOS etc. for it?
if no, learn how to port linux
if yes find their documentation and follow it
Quality/Results may vary
I am writing this comment on an ubuntu touch phone, it is very usable surprisingly, been on it for months now
Are you in the US? If yes, which band (GSM/CDMA) and which phone? Ive been wanting to get off of pixels & Android for ages but I’m scared of not being able to actually use my phone as a phone.
Turkey, fairphone, turkcell currently. It runs android apps just fine
Are you just using web login for everything then? Like for banking and such?
How do you navigate Incompatibilities?
I am so considering starting to experiment with an Linux phone. But it will be a long time until it can do contactless payments, bank apps, safe biometrics and heavy apps. Now that I think about it,it shouldn’t be impossible.
I would say give up on contactless if you ever want to use a Linux phone. In addition to the fact that if youre in the US Google/Apple/Samsung are definitely selling your spending habits to the highest bidder, I see no future short of world peace where banks agree to work with FOSS devs to create a secure enough system for wireless payment to work.
Get a thin case and put your card in it numbers facing in. It works the same :P
Sorry but having to carry a wallet is a big trade-off for me. I would give up a lot of data for the convenience I have been enjoying for years of not carrying a single card.
Do you regularly use more than one card?
When apple pay became a thing (and gov wallet app soon after) my distilled wallet had three bank cards and 1 ID.
My phone wallet now has 10 bank cards, gov ID, drivers license and 4 loyalty cards and 1 transit related info card.
10 bank cards? how many accounts do you have 😵💫
I can’t speak to living that lifestyle, but I can at least share that there are options for loyalty cards on Android/Linux. I just have my one bank card I use and my ID. I bring my wallet when I know I need something in it.
SailfishOS (on Sony Xperia 10) and UbuntuTouch exist. Also the PinePhone but that is low low end.
Wasn’t it always the year of Linux phones like Android has huge share of market and it is running Linux kernel but with Google spyware. Now it’s just Apple Spyware.
Lineage OS is android without google spy
without the proprietary google services package yes, but not entirely free from google. one obv example is connectivity check that pings google is still there as far as im aware (please feel free to correct)
I’ve been using custom ROMs since Cyanogen Mod 14. I know. But still the share of google spyware is high.
I’m very open to being an early adopter of mobile Linux phones. I’ve been unable to because of a couple of factors. I last seriously checked about half a year ago so take this with a pinch of salt.
- Limited support for specific models. This means that the phone will work as a computer but won’t have the correct drivers for gyro, sim and whatnot.
- Lack of extensive driver support. Phones turn off components to save power, this was not supported the last time I checked and halves the battery life compared to stock android.
- Waydroid support incomplete. Many apps will work but some apps will bug out. Waydroid also has performance issues so it’s not as good as WINE for example.
- Not big enough community. A lot of models are maintained by a single dev that checks in every blue moon.
To get a Linux phone to be competitive on performance we’ll need to get driver APIs and component lists open sourced so it’ll be easier to gather the appropriate info and make drivers.
There has been tons of progress though, Gnome and KDE have really strong touch support now and the apps scale decently.
It’s coming but now fairphone is the only phone that openly supports Linux mobile distros and is open sourced.
I’m very open to being an early adopter of mobile Linux phones.
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the rest of your post
What you are trying to say is you are very open to be a late adopter of mobile Linux phones, adopting a Linux phone when it actually works.
Early adopters are those who tough out the crap. The issue with Linux phones is they’ve been stuck in early adopter land for the last 20 years.
I’m up for installing Linux on my last phone when it’s added to the list of devices that have official/unofficial support. I’m not going to install anything until WiFi and mobile data is supported tbh.
I tried installing Ubuntu touch for fun a couple of years ago but it didn’t boot. I just want to get to a point where I can install the OS and send bug reports.
I get what you are saying, but unless you buy a specific linux phone with some semblance of professional support (e.g. Pinephone) this won’t really get better. The best time to buy a Linux phone was a bit over 10 years ago when Canonical still actually supported Ubuntu Touch. That was pretty much the last time there was any serious effort in that regard. Since then it’s just been hobbyists doing hobby things in hobby quality.
Lack of extensive driver support. Phones turn off components to save power, this was not supported the last time I checked and halves the battery life compared to stock android.
The lack of extensive driver support is real, but I’ve actually doubled my battery’s power with Lineage OS just by removing bloatware
LineageOS is based on android so it gets a lot of goodies with it.
Wtf is this
Apple’s godawful new OS style. They call it “Liquid Glass” and it makes no UX sense.
*liquid ass
How are yous upposed to seeanything ?
You mean Dhar Mann’s “Kids insult chef’s pastry, INSTANTLY REGRET IT”?!
if you don’t like the control center layout, you can just edit it
I think they’re referring to the new liquid glass design in iOS 26, apparently many people have readability issues with it
i was thinking i’d hate it, and i can still see there are some readability issues to work out… but actually im finding i love it: it really kinda sinks into the background and lets the main content on the screen shine… the “bending” of the content in the panels rather than a blur is a much more effective middle-ground to making the foreground UI disappear until you need it
is this the way of the future? probably not… it’ll be way harder for anyone to implement than a blur, and that’s without the animations etc that make things way more complex…
but i do think it’s interesting to try new things with how you separate foreground and background in UI: we’ve been just chucking a quick blur and semi transparent colour block on buttons etc for a while, and i think this approach has a lot of up-sides
Unfortunately American, meaning Linux phones need to have VOLTE for them to you know, be phones. Until then I’m stuck on grapheneOS
My OnePlus 6 in mobian supports VoLTE calls.
Oh shit, nice! I haven’t tried Mobian on the 6T, but I’ll give it a shot
I think you need to make sure it’s enabled in android first.
I don’t use voice anyway - everything I do is through an app.
Check out jmp.chat - they route everything, your voice calls and SMS, through XMPP. So voice calls are VOIP. I don’t even have conventional voice service with them.
