[Ubuntu-US-CA] Ubuntu Touch and more

[charlie]

Hey guys, I wanted to update you some more about my adventures in 
flashing my LG Nexus 5 over to Ubuntu Touch. I've gone through the 
flashing process (yes, I was suppose to include a complete walk-through 
on my personal website and I'm still working on that), and it was easy. 
Took about 20 minutes to get through it and man, the interface is really 
nice. It uses Unity as the GUI and that's ok with me. There's some 
growing pains here. Many of the apps I relied on while using my iPhone 
are not available on Touch but, that's ok. We've got an SDK, the Ubuntu 
SDK IDE, to start making those apps, granted I can get permission from 
each company to make the app for Touch if someone's not doing it already.

So, I installed the Ubuntu SDK IDE to get into app making since I'm 
going to be enrolling in school this fall to finish out my bachelor's 
degree and I thought this would be perfect to do along side my school 
work for my computer science major. And not to mention learning some 
great software to develop some badass video games for 'buntu.

One thing I want to mention, Plasma Mobile's available to use for your 
smartphone and Purism is delivering on their Libre 5 phone in January of 
2019 since they blew past their funding goal with change to spare. Go 
pre-order one of those bad boys for $599. I'm about to. It uses pureOS 
as it's operating system and that even looks good on their own laptops. 
I think it uses the Gnome desktop with the Wayland server.

So, my daily driver is up and running and I'm loving it so far. it's at 
least taking care of my basics needs.


charlie