A challenge proposed by @jjardon for #GUADEC2024 in Denver: we try to go the whole week using only GNOME for our phones. No iPhone, no Android, just GNOME OS or postmarketOS or whatever with GNOME on top.
Navigate with Maps, wake up with Clocks, share our adventures with Snapshot and Tuba, communicate with Fractal, etc.
Think that sounds impossible today? We have one year to get things into shape before then! 😅
@peteriskrisjanis @jjardon yeah, that's an issue right now. My OnePlus 6T is so close to perfect, but… no camera support 😭
@cassidy @peteriskrisjanis @jjardon It's curious that the OP6 camera doesn't work on gnome, I had seen videos of it working with Ubuntu Touch
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7y3DWyB5gN4&ab_channel=CyberPunkEdu
@pethil @cassidy @peteriskrisjanis @jjardon Ah interesting point yes that makes sense.
@mpanhans @cassidy @peteriskrisjanis @jjardon
That's probably because Ubuntu touch makes use of Halium, the original android, it's kernel and it's special device drivers providing a sort of translation layer to a standard linux userland.
This approach isn't used by postmarket os which instead aims to make use of actual linux device drivers in the kernel, upstream everything and thus be able to use actual modern open source linux kernels.