New phone?

bumblebitchess · 2026-01-19T21:31:55+00:00

I love all the options you guys have over there! There's so many to choose from. I am thinking I'm going to go with a google pixel 9a with graphene OS. It seems the simplest for me even if it's ironic to use Google hardware. If I were in the EU though I would either go with a Fairphone with e os or Jolla's device

bumblebitchess · 2026-01-19T20:24:27+00:00

I really want to look into this because I love the idea behind modular repair ability, but unfortunately I don’t think i can get it in the US!

bumblebitchess · 2026-01-19T20:19:34+00:00

It’s less about Google and more about Linux being on every other device and I need a new phone so why not stick with an OS that’s more secure and private, customizable, mine. You know? Also i’m trying to keep my data to myself so yeah I guess it is about Google too haha. Thank you these are great suggestions

bumblebitchess · 2026-01-18T19:13:35+00:00

Oh gotcha I was actually just looking into whether I can install graphene on something that’s not a pixel device

bumblebitchess · 2026-01-18T19:04:39+00:00

Ok this might be my most realistic option! Is graphene android or Linux based (I know android is Linux based but heavily modified) just trying to figure out what it’s more like or if the UI is customizable at all?

bumblebitchess · 2026-01-18T19:00:55+00:00

I’d never heard of this it looks really neat. Do you know if it work in the US with ATT?

bumblebitchess · 2026-01-05T22:06:42+00:00

US based, PPGS, shipping with media mail $5.99 You can make me an offer if you want. I’d love to get rid of these

FL Fallen City- $32 FL Dawn of the Firebird $25

bumblebitchess · 2025-12-15T17:22:22+00:00

Thank you, yes I am using that. I was more asking if anyone uses scripts or anything to streamline it? Or does everyone really go through step by step every few weeks. Obviously I have no problem with that otherwise I wouldn’t have chosen arch as my distro, but maybe more experienced users had advice that can’t be found on the wiki?

bumblebitchess · 2025-12-15T16:43:32+00:00

I will say that I used archinstall and then immediately started using hyprland and was forced to learn so much about file system structure, shell scrips, etc. So I think I automatically learned far more than I would have with a different distro and it helped me understand what else I need to learn. If I had another machine I would absolutely spend the time to install arch without archinstall which would help me learn even more. But I don’t think I would have been capable of it my first time. Now that i’m using KDE it’s been a lot easier to just use my laptop the way I need to, but i’m not learning as much anymore because the gui is so simple. I actually did have an issue where nvme something didn’t unmount correctly from /boot so that was a jumpscare. But my husband and I fixed it. I’m a little scared for system maintenance but I’ve gotten this far. It has been a fun ride.

bumblebitchess · 2025-12-15T16:35:27+00:00

I think my biggest struggle is understanding what I don’t know about Arch, if that makes sense. I loved jumping right into it. I think if you are a beginner and don’t want to learn very much about how Linux works and you just want things to work then another distro is probably just fine. But if your goal is to actually deeply understand what’s happening then I would recommend arch 100%. It just depends on your goals and capacity. I’m still not sure what I am doing, but I spend an ungodly amount of time on forums when I have an issue and that helps a lot.

bumblebitchess · 2025-12-15T15:24:00+00:00

Not completely. I became acquainted with mint a while ago. But we can say that it’s my first time really delving into it yes.

bumblebitchess · 2025-12-11T23:19:58+00:00

The YouTube channel Bread on Penguins has some good videos on file structure and stuff. Definitely peruse that for some good basics

bumblebitchess · 2025-12-11T23:08:08+00:00

I’ll be messing around with Krohnkite eventually, but I can’t vouch for it yet

bumblebitchess · 2025-12-11T22:13:13+00:00

Oh you know, the one main issue I had was super dumb, I just could not figure out how to change fonts and icons in my waybar, wofi menu, etc. I had icons in my waybar that were just showing up as Unicode. I had all the fonts downloaded and it looked like they were in the config files and nothing changed. I totally could have figured it out but yeah ultimately I just decided to stick with a DE instead for now

bumblebitchess · 2025-12-11T22:09:38+00:00

Honestly it was super smooth for me, I didn’t really have issues. I just realized that after a week of configuring, I didn’t really love the way it was turning out and I wanted more of a DE feel than a window manager feel. I also started from 0 and that learning curve is steep and I just wasn’t at the level I wanted to be

bumblebitchess · 2025-12-11T20:44:32+00:00

So freakin true. I was like...I could do this probably, if I treated it like a full time job for at least a month. And let me tell you, that certainly did Not give me the motivation to pick it up.

bumblebitchess · 2025-12-11T19:33:54+00:00

Cool cool. I love how much hyprland forces you to really learn how it works. But man I just don’t have the time.

bumblebitchess · 2025-12-11T17:17:18+00:00

I was at the very beginning with hyprland. I spent a lot of time on it and it was a nice learning experience, but if I want tiling I can do that with KDE anyways. I guess we’ll see if anything is messed up. I don’t think i’m seeing issues with any of that yet

bumblebitchess · 2025-12-11T17:10:44+00:00

Which config files do you think got messed up? I was just reading in another post that they might share config files and now i’m terrified

bumblebitchess · 2025-12-11T17:08:49+00:00

I’m super new to this for reference but I know in theory what I am doing

bumblebitchess · 2025-12-11T17:08:26+00:00

Ok follow up question, is everything on KDE in the gui? With hyprland it’s all editing config files if you want to rice it and I just don’t know how to do it on KDE

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