I’m toying with the idea of trying to get Linux on my Fairphone 3 running. But one thing that was lacking on my Pinephone back then was the lack of a good Signal client. There were one or two available, but they were clunky. I helped out with one or two tickets but I lacked the time to do more and now I lack the energy.

So, is there a viable way to get Signal on a Linux phone? Maybe Waydroid? Or does that suck too much energy?

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There is Axolotl or Wayland, as far as I know.

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Oh yeah, this looked quite good. I’ve been using waydroid with kdeconnect on phosh.

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There are several (paid) Matrix services that allow bridges to other networks like Signal, WhatsApp, Telegram etc. Then, you can use matrix clients like nheko or matrix’ web version in a browser,

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That’d also mean breaking E2EE. I’m fine with bridges in general, but not for systems where people expect communication with me to be private.

A solution would be to run a Signal bridge at home, that way you can keep the keys somewhat secure at least.

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There’s Flare but it’s definitely not feature complete.

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Nice, I will try it out.

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I haven’t tried it on a phone but Signal has a flatpak available so maybe try that.

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It’s their desktop client. It’s x86 only because of Electron.

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Officially, yes, but there’s also https://elagost.com/flatpak/ Also (shameless self plug): https://linuxphoneapps.org/apps/org.signal.signal/

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Ah, that makes sense. I’m curious if someone else knows, though.

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