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New comment by silverbluep in "Linux support is coming to Snapdragon X2 series"

silverbluep — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 17:35:41 +0000

This makes me pretty sad. But I'm still hoping i can have a linux arm laptop in my lifetime; maybe in 10-20 years.

New comment by silverbluep in "F-Droid 2.0"

silverbluep — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 15:56:27 +0000

I use droid-ify as frontend; and it's been fine to use f-droid repos for most of my needs. I try to install my apps from there in general. Biggest issue for me is android auto capability usually requires the app to be installed from play store (CoMaps) and my music player app (GoneMAD) has a companion unlocker that is from paid app store.

I need banking and bunch of vendor related apps. I need play store for them; so not full on f-droid repos. But close-ish when it comes to phone functionality.

New comment by silverbluep in "F-Droid 2.0"

silverbluep — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 15:52:01 +0000

I have been using droid-ify on GrapheneOS for a few years now; because F-Droid ui is terrible, and the privilege extention has been such a pain to configure and get working without issues on my previous lineageOS phone. Happy to see this major overhaul; and i'm glad the FPE is being phased out.

New comment by silverbluep in "I said no and Apple said yes"

silverbluep — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 14:01:12 +0000

I'm in the same boat; been using linux for the last 15 years. Had to get a mac for work this year due to their logging software not being available on linux.

The laptop quality is great; great sound, battery lasts forever compared to mine (framework). Userspace tools and UI is terrible and have no control over but the hardware and the software integration is top notch. (I live in the terminal, and have nix-darwin to bring my existing setup to mac so it's not jarring most of the time)

Won't look back when I can transition back to linux full time; I'll be so happy. But I can see why people go with apple products. I really hope that ARM laptops become a regular thing.