There is a package called android-transfer-file or something like that in the void repos but I'm not sure if its also in the mint repos, might be worth checking, its a gui app that makes it very straightforward to transfer files. Or in last resort you can always git clone the project and use 'make' to build manually the app
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Literally me ๐๐
Obtainium is pretty good to get apps from the git repos directly, Librera is pretty good to read and track the progress of the books you are reading, Termux based terminal for android, Feeder for rss feeds, newpipe to watch youtube. Aurora store for proprietary google play apps that you have to install cause work and whatnot (also has anonymous mode, so you don't need a google account).
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Maybe debian or fedora, something that isn't too advanced
Always good to see NVK progress
Linux mint I would say its the one that tends to have better support in a large amount of hardware and it was the first one that I was able to stick with
I have recently unlocked the bootloader of one xiaomi phone and it was kinda annoying imo, you basically have to wait (7 days I think, or more) when using the official unlocker of the xiaomi website for them to unlock the bootloader (without it you can't degoogle the phone).
There is a lot more telemetry then usual, its China + google that are collecting all your data instead of just google if it was a pixel phone for example. The good side is that there is support for custom roms like lineageOS and its derivatives but I would much rather pick a pixel and put grapheneOS in it if the price wasnt a issue or if you could grab one second-handed.
Besides that, I guess if I was buying regardless I would try unlock the bootloader and install the a custom rom like lineageOS as fast as possible.
You can install them like any other package from dnf/apt and then run them with startX (if its X11) or start them via their name if they are Wayland compositors (all this in the tty, the black screen with just letter outputs)
I am using void at the moment, pretty stable even tho it is rolling release
Honestly, I don't think you are going to take that much time to get used to fedora based distros since in my experience the only thing that ended up changing was the name of the package manager and the faster updates.
I would recommend that you use more up to date distros since gaming in Linux has been having fast-paced performance updates and with the new proton stuff which is relatively new and is only to get more patches because valve is investing on it. So picking up fedora might be a good choice since its more up to date and it isn't that different to debian compared to more minimal/advanced distros such as arch and void (but being more advanced as a lot of percs that simpler distros don't have).
Very cool rice, the minimalism also adds to the charm of it
More like with added surveillance ๐