Phone Link is Microsoft’s late and closed source alternative to KDE Connect. It requires you sign in to a Microsoft Account for it to work.
This means all the transactions between your phone and your PC are monitored and sucked up by Microsoft.
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On one hand, *lame!!* Die in a fire, copycats
on the other hand, *cool!* it’s not my imagination that kdeconnect is the best phone app ever. thank you to all involved!! ❤️
It also doesn’t work properly.
Number one reason right here.
I have gotten Your Phone to work maybe a half a dozen times. KDE Connect just works, full stop.
I have had nothing but problems with kde connect for years
@[email protected] @[email protected] looks like they just want all our data… never enough!
Windows is turning into another spyware
Windows is turning into another spyware
Turning?
@woelkchen ok, it already IS a spyware
@[email protected] @[email protected] Which, funny enough, is Precisely Why I run KDE Connect.
Also, I don’t let my androids fraternize with Windows machines, I’d have to boil them all later because, ew.
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it is absolutely useless on all platforms
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KDE Connect and Phone Link only have partial feature overlap. I prefer KDE Connect but to claim that either is a proper alternative for the other is wrong, unless I missed that KDE Connect supports casting the phone’s screen to PCs and launching phone apps from there.
There is scrcpy for that and you can launch arbitrary commands from KDE Connect too.
There is scrcpy for that and you can launch arbitrary commands from KDE Connect too.
I’m fully aware of that but the scrcpy feature set is not integrated into KDE Conenct, therefore the features overlap to a degree but aren’t the same. Phone Link allows to launch apps from Windows, KDE Connect doesn’t offer the same. That’s no diss or anything, just stating facts.
No screen mirroring though 😕
Maybe scrcpy is the tool for you then.
It requires you sign in to a Microsoft Account for it to TRY TO work
ftfy, i wanted to give it a shot one time and it literally didnt work, at all. all of Microsofts cross device features are a hot mess, like how you are supposed to be able to share the clipboard between logged in windows PCs, never could get that working either.
Apart from screen mirroring and sms that everyone has mentioned the proprietary alternative undeniably has more features. I don’t know whether it is phone link or link to windows but one of them has a feature where your phone can be used as a webcam over WiFi. As someone who set up ip webcam on my phone and used obs virtual camera through most of the pandemic’s online classes it’s quite useful and I’d like to see features like that just work and are not relying on mjpeg and proprietary software on the phone end. Their auto hotspot feature i haven’t gotten to work and i think is useless but I’m thankful that i don’t have to turn off kde connect when using samsung dex.
I wonder if KDE connect could leverage the way Syncthing does device discovery and pairing
It works across networks, with no configuration
Look what they need just to mimic a fraction of our power
Interesting that they bothered to make this considering KDE Connect already works on Windows
The only unique (I think?) thing about phone link is that it enables you to use your Android phone camera as a webcam, which can be handy if you don’t have a quality webcam. I think its only in the beta version though.
Audio and video sharing would be really handy. I wonder if KDE connect might do this at some point
I’m not sure if this is a Pixel feature or if its available across all of Android, but there is an option when you connect over USB to connect your phone as a webcam - but that is of course tethered instead of being wireless.
I’m sure it might stop working soon enough. For your safety.
@[email protected] why isn’t it called KDE Konnect instead of Connect?
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Not anyone know that KDE connect works on all devices, Android to android, Linux to Windows and all combinations.So no need to use something like a bad copy from Microsoft.
I’ll just leave this here:
closed source - true alternative to KDE Connect - false requires you sign in to a Microsoft Account for it to work - true
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