This is the current configuration i am using while daily driving linux on mobile.\
I am using a [OnePlus 6T](https://www.oneplus.com/it/6t/specs) with [PostmarketOS](https://postmarketos.org/) and the [Phosh](https://phosh.mobi/) user interface.
As a daily driver the phone is basically 100% functional for my use case, your experience may vary depending on your needs.
There are pre-built images of PostmarketOS that can be used if a custom compilation is not needed. The installation of these images if incredibly simple and well documented [here](https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/OnePlus_6_(oneplus-enchilada)).\
If you want GPS to work, you may need to flash OxygenOS in a specific version, before flashing postmarketOS; 9.0.8 for OP6, 9.0.16 for OP6T. Its recommended to flash it to both slots (ie. use copy-partitions from LineageOS) although it was not proved that it is necessary.\ If you want to check that the GPS is working use:
"Calls" is the default application to call used in the OS. When receiving calls, the vibration and sound work, even when the screen is turned off.\
While at the beginning it seemed that there were no major issues and the calls where working fine, now I am having trouble making calls work at all. More info on this issues and potential fixes later.
"Chats" is the default application to send and receive SMS and MMS messages. I have not tried MMS yet, SMS work perfectly out of the box, no particular setup needed. The app is quite complete and responsive.\
Features include: archiving messages, messages receipts, emojis, search function and more. Fully functional
Thunderbird is very good state overall, i have not needed to look at potential alternatives yet, given how everything i need is in the app already. With a a couple of changes to the view settings it is possible to create a very usable setup.\
Notifications work visually if the app is open in the background, but i have not being able to make the sound of the notifications work.
Once open, emails are fully readable and navigable, they render correctly and have all the standard options available and working (reply, reply list, archive, just, forward, etc).
The extended support release of Firefox is the default browser of the OS and arrives with **mobile-config-firefox** package already installed, making it usable from the start.\
The browser is fast and responsive, the only issue i have found is that the tabs menu is not working correctly when more tabs than the maximum the view allows are open. I wasn't able to swipe to reach the tabs outside of the view of the menu.\
Giara is a a Reddit client release under the GPL3 license, written using python and GTK. The app works very well, shows everything the site does, from comments to thumbs up to dates and edits.\
Has the option to copy to the clipboard a comment or post and to open them in the browser. Currently has a slight issue swiping the main page.
Formerly gtkeddit, it is written in C++ and it's an archived project. It's currently still working great, probably slightly faster than Giara, but the UI is older and i don't like the way it manages trees of comments. Still very good as a Reddit client.
Famous RSS/Atom feed reader for the terminal written in C++. Somewhat functional after a couple of easy modifications i have found improved my experience. Instructions will follow.
Written using flutter, works very well out of the box. Notifications works visually as long as the app is among the open applications tray. Only important piece missing is the ability to play audio messages.\
Requires flatpak installation and flathub repository addition.
To have access to WhatsApp chats to talk to normies who don't care about having their conversations be actually private i use the WhatsApp Web interface on Firefox.\
Stuff that works include:
- sending, receiving, reading messages
- reproduce vocal messages
- see media sent and have access to media gallery of chats
- notification sounds when receiving a new message (if browser is open and WhatsApp is a loaded page)
To use Newsboat to read RSS feeds (including the feed of this site!) you can change a couple of things to improve your experience. The default browser used by Newsboat when using the "o" command to open an article in the browser is Lynx.\
Using Lynx in the phone's shell is not impossible but impractical. What i found much better is to pass the Firefox-ESR binary as a variable when launching Newsboat, by editing the **newsboat.desktop** file in ```/usr/share/applications``` like this:
This will launch the Firefox-ESR binary and use firefox as the browser. The binary will be executed in the same terminal in which you launched the Newsboat binary, so, in order to go back to newsboat, you will need to close Firefox first.
There are multiple issues, maybe related to each other, with audio inputs/outputs in general and specifically in calls.\
In calls, with the default input/output compo, the audio input is working, so people will head you fine, but the adio output level makes hearing them barely possible. In a completely quite room you can barely understand when the other person is saying.
Also, the phone at startup or at the end of a call will switch the default output from the speakers to the headphones, which is another bug.
Both of this are making having reliable calls impossible as of right now.
One workaround that made calls working again partially (audio was still too low, but decent) was\
sudo rc-update del call_audio_idle_suspend_workaround
```
This workaround is among the comments on the [issue #1876](https://gitlab.com/postmarketOS/pmaports/-/issues/1876) that is tracking this problems. Please note that the original comment with the previous commands has a typo.\
The issue of the default audio output being wrong is the [issue #2522](https://gitlab.com/postmarketOS/pmaports/-/issues/2552).
the PostmarketOS service manager is OpenRC, so you can use the ```rc-service``` commands with ease. the command is also symlinked to ```service```, just so you know.
```
rc-service networkmanager status
sudo rc-service networkmanager start
sudo rc-service networkmanager stop
sudo rc-service networkmanager restart
```
To enable or disable services on boot you can use the ```rc-update``` command
```
# Start NetworkManager on boot (in the default runlevel)
