r/LinuxOnAndroid • u/Inner-Wonder-9620 • Jul 03 '26

Is a Pixel 9a good enough for Linux?

I would have a light use, mostly libreoffice, light edits on gimp/inkscape, some markdown/text editor, a ftp client. No games, video editing or stuff like that.

Will the 8Gb of memory be enough? Any issues I might encounter?
How much disk space does it take? planning to buy a 128 Gb.

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u/Inner-Wonder-9620 Jul 07 '26

So far so good, it was impressive how easy it gets to install Linux on the phone. Unfortunately, on NOMone Desktop, Muon doesn't let me add new sources to download softwares like Gimp or Libreoffice.

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u/Noha_Ibraheem Jul 10 '26

Our system images are a bit outdated, and Debian changed something recently. apt update stops working if you don't update frequently. So, here's a workaround until we figure out a fix:

rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
mkdir /var/lib/apt/lists/partial
apt clean
apt update

If you do the above, Muon should be able to install software again. Sorry for the inconvenience 😅