06-19-2024, 05:49 PM
LibreOffice and Evolution are not usable at all on a phone, no matter the distribution. The UI elements just do not fit at all on the screen, unless the mobile "desktop" environment has a zoom-to-fit functionality, which for those applications will shrink everything so much that it is basically impossible to use with finger touches.
Calls actually work on real GNU/Linux phones (PinePhone, PinePhone Pro, Librem 5, Liberty Phone – those are the only current ones I know of) as well. No need to use a fake GNU/Linux phone relying on the Halium hack and binary blobs.
The proprietary drivers are also a security risk, see, e.g., the 2 recent critical and actively exploited vulnerabilities (one from last year, one from just a few days ago) in the proprietary Mali family GPU drivers by the Arm corporation. Devices using Free Software drivers such as lima or panfrost are not vulnerable.
Calls actually work on real GNU/Linux phones (PinePhone, PinePhone Pro, Librem 5, Liberty Phone – those are the only current ones I know of) as well. No need to use a fake GNU/Linux phone relying on the Halium hack and binary blobs.
The proprietary drivers are also a security risk, see, e.g., the 2 recent critical and actively exploited vulnerabilities (one from last year, one from just a few days ago) in the proprietary Mali family GPU drivers by the Arm corporation. Devices using Free Software drivers such as lima or panfrost are not vulnerable.