To improve Android-application function on the go, AOSP-derivatives (LineageOS, GrapheneOS, /e/OS, CalyxOS, etc.) are also tolerated, at least on the phone. This because so many people say mobile Linux (PostmarketOS, Sailfish OS, etc.) is not so nice yet in daily phone use.
This question didn’t come from me originally, but I’ll add my context anyway:
I come from Ubuntu (eww, Canonical) and Android (eww, Google, nope!).
I currently have Linux Mint with Cinnamon desktop on the laptop, and because of the bugs, I’ve been considering moving to something else with KDE (serious desktop UI), maybe OpenSUSE because its roots are so European.
I tried Fedora with Gnome on a tablet I had 2025, which seemed fine on a touchscreen, unlike Fedora with KDE.
My phone runs /e/OS with the default Nextcloud hosted by Murena (the company behind /e/OS), which is fine, and I appreciate that /e/OS can be bought pre-installed, and that it supports bootloader re-locking (against pickpockets) on many devices (Fairphone and Shiftphone of the European ones).
Special thanks to Firefox for a unified experience through a Mozilla-account. More of this kind of unification would be welcome.
KDEConnect and GSConnect make for a pleasant experience for pairing Android with Linux.
I’m personally using GrapheneOS + Arch w/ KDE
I frequently have 3-4 KDE connected devices on my network and quite often it works fine with 2, but when the third comes online, it does not get found for hours, even when I force a refresh.
The only way to make it work “right now” is to unpair and then pair them again, every fucking time.
Sometimes even 2 devices don’t work unless I keep clicking refresh for 2 minutes.
It feels finnicky af. I remember it working way better during early KDE 5…
(everything up to date ofc and all in the same wifi)
Same here. KDE Connect on android with fedora KDE works like a charm.
There’s nothing in the free world to compete with the Apple experience.
what is with the downvotes, are you people delusional?
there’s supposed to be free stuff out there rivaling the vertically integrated multi-platform tech stack from a trillion dollar corporation, the one that that even they didn’t get right out of the gate, but evolved over almost two decades?
no, nothing close to that exists anywhere. and not only does it not exist, it’s not even being developed nor is it in a pipeline somewhere.
Those downvoters, I guess, have never used Apple devices or experienced the Apple ecosystem. Yes, it’s a walled garden, an ivory tower, a golden cage: But it’s one that’s so beautiful and versatile that, once you’re inside, you fall in love with it and really don’t want to get out.
Technically correct, but very much a walled garden. You can do it Apple’s way, or…well that’s all you can do.
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Out of curiosity, which Mint bugs are you seeing?
I’ve just upgraded one family laptop to… 22? And about to do another on the weekend… so curious if I should hold off, or hurry up…
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I run LMDE6 on KDE/Wayland, with KDE Connect on both it and my phone. It’s pretty handy, especially when I forget to put my PC to sleep before climbing into bed; I can just pull up KDE Connect on my phone and tap the “suspend” command. Instant response. Getting important notifications and texts on my desktop is handy as well.
It does take a bit of configuration, but honestly I vastly prefer that over a faceless corpo deciding the configuration for me and installing backdoors and other garbage I never asked for.
I’m currently testing out O+Connect which is software for all Oppo/OnePlus/RedMi phones. It works better than the Apple ecosystem in some ways, but worse in others. Overall, I’m very impressed.
O+ is built natively for macOS and windows, but I’ll be attempting to install it on Linux through wine
I couldn’t get it to run in wine or bottles unfortunately. The installer just crashes the bottle/wine VM.
