I Bought a Linux Phone in 2026

You know, there's been a lot of talk recently about people installing Linux on their computers to get away from Windows and Mac, but is that far enough? As today we're going to be installing Linux on our phones, to get away from Android and iOS. Oh, hi everyone. I'm Sam Tucker and today we're going to be trying out Ubuntu OS on the Fairphone 4. It says fair phone, though. I don't think this will be a fair fight at all. I predict I'm going to get my butt kicked. But yeah, the fair phone was one of the few phones I could get Linux pre-installed on. Apparently, you can technically install Abuntu OS onto a phone yourself, but I only wanted to have one aneurysm today. So, let's try that out. Change is in your hands. Although change isn't always a good thing, is it? And there it is. Sustainable, long-lasting, fair. Well, let's see how long we last. You know, I don't feel this guide is thick enough to get started on Linux. In fact, it already says new to Android. I don't think they anticipated anyone would get Ubuntu Touch on their phones. I'm not actually sure if Fairphone Phone sold this with Ubuntu already on it or if the previous owner did it for me. I hope they did a good job. All right, this is my first experience of a Fairphone. It is a fair bit heavy, but you know, it seems quite solid. You know, USBC holes. These are the holes for noise. No noise holes. Another strange hole on the back cuz I have to take the back off. Oh, am I going to break it even before I turn it on? Ow. So, I can confirm the back is plastic. But that gives us the advantage of Ooh, getting in deep here. Removable battery. Look how easy that is. Oh, remember when you could do that with a battery? All right, I'm just postponing the inevitable. Now, we actually have to boot into Linux. So, I'm going to run through a few challenges today. The first of which will be to turn it on. And already we're getting some kind of warning. Are you sure you want to boot into Linux? You're not going to have a good time. I think that actually shows up when you install something other than Android. See, it still wishes it had Android on there, but it's not, buddy. It's something altogether different. And there it is. Ubuntu touch. It's booting. Uuntu is Ubooting. All right. English Australia. That's cool. Ubuntu speaks Australian. >> But mate, all I had was me jocks on. >> Personalize your device. Preferred name? I prefer to be called Sambuntu. lock screen. Oh, break screen. You're ready to use your device now. Am I ready? Is it would you touch an OS or is it an SOS? Let's find out. Swipe from the top edge to access notifications and quick settings. All right, so smudge the camera to get access to settings. Apparently, I don't have any settings. Long swipe from the left edge to open the application drawer. All right, there's my apps. Sideways mode. Ah, so you can sideways things now. And look at the carousel. The 3D carousel of apps. That's gorgeous. Swipe from the right edge to view open apps. Oh wow. Now this is advanced. Ubuntu has the multi system that Vista had. I love that. And now it's back with a vengeance. No one wanted it back, but it's here for you. Oh, we could change the background if we wanted. Beautiful. Tick. Any updates to uh to Linux? Let's see. Oh, there is no touch. And without even asking, it's installing. I thought this was Ubuntu, not not a Windows machine. Although I hear Ubuntu is uh basically the Microsoft of Linux distros. While that's downloading, the Kai is downloading something of his own down there. So uh we've each got our things going on. Hang, let's see if we get back to the the desktop. Why did it tell me how to do that? None of the swipes take me to the desktop. Quit pinch. Pinch. Five finger pinch. Oh. Oh, I've just changed 10 settings all at once. Okay, that was scary. I don't know how to get to the desktop. So, I guess you don't need to. You just got to quit everything. 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Well, I wasn't going to waste my precious experience asking that. Instead, I gave him my code and he guided me on what I did wrong. Turns out it was a pesky underscore. Those things get in the way. Let me underscore that. Actually, let me not underscore that, buddy. Don't underscore it. Another lesson learned. So, what are you waiting for? Learn to code anything from Linux to Python to SQL the fun way with Bootdev. Click the link in the description and use the code word Samime to get 25% off your first year on an annual plan. All right, let's see what applications we have here. We have the butterfly. Oh, the web browser. Let's just start off by playing a nice YouTube video. >> Just as you'd expected kai, check it out. It's the new abuntu. New tab. I'm confused. Where am I? What year is it? Tap to view. What am I viewing? Oh, I'm I'm swiping. I don't I shouldn't be here. I've got two two of these now and a keyboard. Go. A. Let's see if the calculator works. 5 + 5. It does equal 10. And I am in a good mod. I usually wait a little while for this, but let's test out the camera straight away. We want to get the kit eye to help with this one. Ah, look. It's quite a simple looking camera. Hey, buddy. Say hello, buddy. Who's sweet? Are you being recorded in Linux? Do you love Linux? Are you a sweet Linux boy? And check it out. We're recording a selfie video on the fair phone in Linux. And I haven't had to open the terminal yet. Wow. I thought I'd have to give three pseudo commands to to get this going. Oh, I have a little mask mode. I could put the Zoro mask on. No device info. Save device info. No device info. I don't understand what it's trying to tell me. Although, one thing, I think the Fairphone seems to have at least two cameras on the back here. And I don't remember seeing two camera options. Yeah. So, Linux does delete one of the cameras, but the fact that it works at all is quite impressive. All right, let's put in a SIM card. Doctor, we're going to do a SIM transplant. We have the iPhone here. You know, I want to get away from this Apple intelligence because I'm intelligent enough to use my own phone. Am I intelligent enough to use a Linux phone though? Well, that's another question. Open back surgery on the Linux phone while it is alive and awake. Oh, it wants to call an emergency. No. Oh, actually, I do have to take the battery out. Sorry, Linux. We're going to have to put you under for this. Let's install a SIM card. Easy does it. Difficultly does it. Ow. All right. SIM card is installed. Pairing the patient back up again. patient is having a panic attack. Two videos recorded today. Stop giving away my personal information, Linux. Jeez Louise, just got the telemetry right on the front screen. Okay. And of course, to unlock it, you give you a calculator. Nerdiest thing in the world. Why would there be a plus? You have to do math just to log into your phone. Oh, look at this in the contacts. Import contacts from vcard file. As we know, most Linux users do hold a vcard. Although once you get one of these phones, maybe you'll meet a lucky someone and you'll hand in your vcard and uh you'll be having a happy time from there. All right, then let's try to call AI. >> Hello. >> Hey, Aie. How are you? >> Yeah, I'm good. Oh, I can actually hear you. >> Yeah, it's better than the Blackberry, isn't it? So, yeah, maybe we'll switch to Linux. Maybe we'll be a Linux couple. >> Huh? Not ready to renew my my Linux commands with you. You take pseudo apps. Get husband today. Cool. So, a phone call success. Let's try to get some more apps. These apps are too limited. I want to get the vast exciting world of open- source apps. So, I click open store. Ah, here we go. On the front page, we have a chess clock. They really know their audience. Let's get this beautiful chess clock. It comes in gray. Look at this. A beautiful Linux app running as easy as an Android. Boom. Quickly make your move. Apple, how are you going to get Linux in checkmate after they've already castled your rook? Porn. Bang. Can you see porn on this? Let's not find that out. This is a serious channel. Three people like the weather. One person didn't like the weather. Must have been raining. Any Melbourne 18° 18° in Melbourne. Oh, and then you get a nice uh print out of every temperature that it's ever been. You got one degree, you got your 2°, 3°. Let's install UNAV. This has gotten a lot of likes. Of course, in Linux tells you how many bugs there are. This apparently crashes on search, but it looks promising. So, I think looking promising is a bug on Linux. It's meant to look a little a little average. So, a cool feature on the UNav is that when you select a location and tap it, it takes you a little left of that location. Sort of like I installed a Phone OS, but actually, you didn't. Oh, the phone company got alerted that I'm on a Linux phone. They want to make sure that I'm okay. Let's see if they have some messaging apps. Like we'll go the classic evil one, WhatsApp. Bang. You have what's web and what's new. Now, are these good alternate clients that'll listen to your messages or will they sell it to the government like the real one does? I'm not sure. It's hard to tell when there's only been five hearts. Not to worry, though, as I believe there's a secret method to get Android apps working on your Linux Ubuntu phone. We need something called Way Droid. Oh, well, this lets you install Wayoid. So, let's uh just use this app. All right, we're getting into it now. So, every time you want to use an Android app, you just wait for this loading screen here. Ooh, Lineage OS. Look at this. We're using Android on this Android phone through Linux. Does the camera and stuff work? Oh, the camera works. Strange. Let's see if we can get WhatsApp on it. We're going where no man has gone before cuz they didn't want to go there. Why would they? They just get Android on this Android phone. Okay, here we go. Test message to AD from Linux. Whoa, it works. All right, here we go. We're going to try and voice video call ad does video. >> Linux does video. How about that? The quality is very sad. >> You're somehow too defined and not defined enough at the same time. >> Well, isn't that me in real life? How poetic. It captures the real me. Well, here's a fun test. If this is really running Linux, then it should work in desktop mode. Let's see if plugging this into a monitor works. You see this? And you can use it as a trackpad. Let's make a note. Look at this. You see this? I'm typing with a physical keyboard. typing on Linux. Get out of here, Samsung. This is the real Dex. Linux has a bigger Dex than all of you. All right, it's time to do it. This is what Linux was made for. Let's pump open the terminal. Authentification required. This is like you have to go down to the government, get a special notice saying, I understand the risks. Yes, I'm a responsible person. I am allowed to plug things into my phone and I am a citizen and I have rights, damn it. And I want to open up terminal. Kit I help. I need you to tap the first tap. Give it a tap. Yep. Use your nose if you have to. Yep. Beautiful. We're in the terminal, everyone. This is what Linux was all about. Oh, and it has assumed my gender. And very strong language with the pseudo route. I mean, no, you don't get to just pseudo and get to do what you want. You have to ask, get to know him, go out to dinner, and and and be very consensual. Now, Sam equals cool. Echo. Come on, Sammy T. You've got this. Don't let Linux beat your man. Here we go, Kitai. This is the moment. Oh, okay. I forgot. I have to refresh my boot dev class. Oh, now I'm scared. What have I done? Oh, I've got I rightclicked somehow. Somebody help. Help. Abort. Oh, I just click and more things happen. Where's my keyboard? Abort. No, you can't get it. Once terminal has you, there's no getting out. All right. Well, it's all fun and good using Linux inside, but let's do what no one's ever done. Go out in public and use Linux. Oh, the sun. It's going to burn my Linux body. Terminal by the tower. Terminal by the tram museum. They usually have trams out the front. Um, ruins the joke a bit, but ah, there's a tram. He was hiding. That's right. Terminal at the terminal. The train. There are no trains either. They follow the trains. It's like Linux. It's a ghost town. And there you go. Linux or Ubuntu on a phone. Surprisingly quite easy to do the basic things. So what are you doing on your iPhone Pro Max? You need to get yourself an Ubuntu phone. And well, not do much with it other than calls and websites, but what more do you need? All right, until next time. Stay funky, everyone. Sam time signing off. >> Subscribe today. >> Medicine. No thanks. I know it's terminal. It's actually the camera. It's too hard to get the terminal app open. It takes forever. I have to put in my password to use terminal. You like auntu, buddy? You got your own little bun butt butt to right in the right in the shot. All right, we're rooting the phone now. Now we have to mount the phone. Now we're going to remount it. Get your first mount out of the way before you remount.

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