It looks like ubuntu touch on the fairphone 4 is nearly perfect, and the features that don’t work I won’t miss. I’m very tempted to buy a second hand fairphone 4, but I can’t really find much on the experience of ubuntu touch. How do you install apps? Are there repo’s that I can look at? And is it just branded ubuntu touch, or will any ubuntu apps made for arm work on ubuntu touch? If anybody has some links or personal experiences they could share, that would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks a lot in advance!

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@jeffreyosborne @haui_lemmy It’s not officially supported, but it works with pmOS, except camera (big issue), fingerprint, GPS, and a few more things. Camera I think it’s a problem with the library or the driver, not sure

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I’ve heard ubuntu touch uses a library from android to be able to use most cameras, but because pmOS is alpine they don’t have that library.

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