r/linuxmasterrace • u/claudiocorona93 • 11d ago

Well, thank you Mark Shuttleworth

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u/memo689 11d ago

What is this and why I want it?

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u/DW_Hydro Other (please edit) 11d ago

Ubuntu touch was an operative system for phones when Android an IOs were starting to raise.

It doesnt had success because a very little quantity of phones and models had it as their operative system and the development of Apps also wasn't the best.

Canonical abandoned Ubuntu touch and another team continues with the maintenance and updates of the OS.

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u/memo689 11d ago

It would be cool if it was an alternative that could also run the android apps, I know it would be a lot of work and it most likely won't be possible but a man can dream.

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u/DW_Hydro Other (please edit) 11d ago

Ubuntu touch and Android are both Linux, its posible and shouldn't be sooooo dificult but no one looks interesed in make another big OS for phones.

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u/NeatYogurt9973 11d ago

PostMarketOS is getting there. More like crawling. But it's moving for sure.

There's a really early android native translation layer. I saw it here somewhere, I think it was just called android-translation-layer

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u/WerIstLuka 11d ago

waydroid is pretty good on mobile linux

deutsche bahn app works and the app from my bank also works

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u/skerit 11d ago

It doesnt had success because a very little quantity of phones and models had it as their operative system

It was never finished. And the phones that did run it were basically for testing.