Basically I’m tired of all the restrictions smartphone companies are adding, and I just wanna have a cheap budget phone with a data plan then just hotspot it to my pocket-pc.

Does such a “pocket-pc” device exist?

  • FuglyDuck@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    the R. Pi is kinda that. it’s not really a phone, but Raspbian is a fork of debian. Plenty you can do with it if you want.

    The problem is that “full desktop OSes” expect full desktop peripherals (key board and mouse) and get clunky if you try to have something like a touch screen instead. Which is a large part of why win 8 was as bad as it was- they wanted a “seamless” OS for their phones and what they found was… NOPE.

    Sure laptops frequently now have touch-screen monitors, but you still have the KBM input too.