alt Hacker Newsthere's an easy roadmap to make this popular.
make it so that I can dock it and use it as a full fat OS on a desktop. If they wanna market this as an open phone, they need to make it first class as a primary computing device. so far only samsung is willing to enter this territory with a glorified chromebook.
if I could install the rust toolchain and vscode on it and use it in a customizable desktop environemnt by plugging it into a USBC monitor, you bet I'd buy it. Id happily pay 1-2k+ euros for it.
Sadly as is, it functionally does less than my locked down iphone so whats the point?
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There are a number of rust developers building for SailfishOs. Rubdos maintains a Signal client in rust. The toolchain also runs on the build service maintained by Jolla (obs). I'm not sure what the editor has to do with it. I use vim for most of my SFOS development but sometimes use the SDK, sometimes I use Godot.
> make it so that I can dock it and use it as a full fat OS on a desktop.
Here you go: https://puri.sm/posts/my-first-year-of-librem-5-convergence/
That would be nice, plug in usb-c to a display and keyboard.
But there's another way, can't someone implement their own implementation of the core google services apis and then you can just load a regular app off the app store and run it? Google would absolutely want to block this as their control and monopoly depends on it. But it shouldn't be against the law.
It's obvious, so it means someone must have tried and it was not reasonably possible.