I’m really interested in Librem5 but my social and business life depends heavily on Whatsapp - the only app I truly need. Can someone please help me understand how I can go about using it on Librem5? Sign into the web version of Whatsapp? But that requires a login from the app first. I would order…

SURPRISE ! SURPRISE ! i guess when you’re constantly in the media for being big-brother there comes a point when you’ve had enough and just call everybody out “you’re in or you’re out !”

There’s a lot of idealism in this thread, but unfortunately (in some countries) Whatsapp is necessary. I moved out of the US last December, and in my new country the following is all done via Whatsapp: Insurance Doctors appointments Opticians appointments Setting up mechanic’s appointments Creatin…

[image] flava: There’s a lot of idealism in this thread The reasons you cited are valid, but idealism is a path to changing the current monopolies and abuses. But I think we all understand that an interim solution needs to be found. :slight_smile:

I did find that they ship an official APK: https://www.whatsapp.com/android/ – which is great, because now I know it’s not backdoored by anybody except Facebook :slight_smile: And, on Ubuntu I was able to install Whatsapp on Anbox pretty easily. So if Anbox runs on OK Librem them that seems like a …

[image] flava: So if Anbox runs on OK Librem them that seems like a reasonably clean path. [image] Anbox on the Librem 5 – Purism Purism makes premium phones, laptops, mini PCs and servers running free software on PureOS. Purism products respect people's privacy and freedom while …

[image] Anbox installation Librem 5 Hello Librem 5 community, I’d like to install anbox to get Signal. seems to be the right place to start. Following this installation guide I got this issue: $ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:morphis/anbox-support run fine…

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couldn’t agree more on your point Joadri If the open source community wants to become successful, in the sense to a more privacy safe way of digital connection, the tools should be accessible, convenient and easy to use. otherwise, as many open source initiatives, it will remain in the shades of …

I like the idea of Singlebox and Webcatalog. It is similar approach as GNOME Web (Epiphany) installable apps. However GNOME Web does not currently work with WhatsApp web on Librem 5 Librem 5: web.whatsapp.com not working in GNOME Web (Epiphany)

big sigh. why is it again so complicated. Just create simple plug and play solutions. Which is quite possible with linux so again I pass

How would I go about running Whatsapp on Librem5?

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