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Only thing I know of is the lead dev has a mastodon account (dansup) where he's pretty active

Loops is new and still in beta. The dev has said that he wants to wait to open source it until he feels it's current state is ready to be on other people's servers (once it reaches 1.0). I can't say I agree with the thought process but at least with pixelfed he did the same process and actually followed through on federation and open sourcing

Organic maps is the goat, looking forward to their linux build becoming more stable

Whether or not it is on gog doesn't really impact how easy it is to pirate. For me it's almost like streaming where the convenience is so high that I'd rather just pay on gog and get the perks that come with that then look elsewhere.

Current nixos user and it seems to me to have stabilized a good bit. I know that the nixos foundation held their first elections for the steering community. Also they recently released their new stable 24.11 version that seemed to go smoothly.

It is not back to where it was in terms of dev trust but there is good progress, and my software still gets updated so I have stuck with it

This is the initial release of their beta, I would've been very surprised if it had upload capabilities

I switched from rimusic to innertune and have been happy

Pretty sure it's not removed, they just aren't accepting any changes from the developer for the 6.13 cycle

Anyone have any comparisons of this to Ardour?

There are apps made for linux that don't work with android, and there are apps made for android that don't work with linux. That's enough for me to consider them different

Also android just doesn't use the basic mainline kernel which is what most people want when they say "linux phone"

I don't daily drive one but I've been keeping a close eye on it and here's my opinions: postmarketos seems to have the most momentum out of any distro (you can see device support here). I do believe it will be viable eventually as a lot of work is actively being done. This month they announced two grants that were accepted for 4g volte calling and firefox on mobile improvements. They are also working on porting systemd to alpine so that gnome mobile and plasma mobile can be run without any workarounds. Also the oneplus6/6t seems to be the most hopeful for a daily driver.

tldr: I don't think it's currently viable but work and money is currently being put towards projects to fix that