> What would you like for Email on your phone from the Linux world?

There seems to be an adaptive version of Geary now, which looks nice though I haven't used it yet.

> A web browser?

GNOME Web works pretty well in my experience, though it could be faster and it's still missing WebRTC support.

> Contacts app?

GNOME Contacts seems to work well enough on my Librem 5 - synced straight away with my Nextcloud instance, vs. on Android where I had to find a third-party app to do that.

> What would you like for Email on your phone from the Linux world?

I actually run mutt on Android already (yay termux), so should be fine.

> A web browser?

What's wrong with Firefox or chromium?

There are lots of very good open source alternatives (K9 Mail, OsmAnd, Element/Matrix, Firefox of course, etc.). Take a look at f-droid.org.

The parent was saying he wants Linux (as in desktop) apps on his phone. My point exactly is that they are much worse than Android ones in mobile scenarios.

Many would need UI to be rewritten from scratch.

I greatly prefer firefox to chrome on android. Especially reader mode.

If only there was a Firefox for Android.

Not sure if that's sarcastic, but yes there is.

It is sarcastic.

Person who advocates for Firefox on Android doesn't even know that it is already there.

You misread the comment.

Yep, apologies to OP. I thought I was replying to different comment.

>What would you like for Email on your phone from the Linux world?

Thunderbird

>A web browser?

Firefox/Chromium

>Contacts app?

kAddressBook

> Thunderbird, kAddressBook

Interface totally unacceptable on mobile.

> Firefox/Chromium

Android has both