Then that is not for me yet.

PCLinuxOS.

Stable and rolling for regular people OS.

Is that usable for regular Joe or enthusiast grade?

It is really good. Seems to be abandoned now though?

Is there an apk for the dialer?

What is fusion here?

Feels nice, closing tabs is bit convoluted though.

I tried exFAT for my USB stick but car sterio cannot read it.

People don’t value things until they lose them.

The last part is the most sad part, I felt he really loved working on it. It must have felt like cutting off an arm for him to let it go.

Do you have a wifi network? If yes then use a file explorer on Android that can do FTP. Use any FTP client on your computer and transfer. I recommend FileZilla.

Oh, I had forgotten about that one.

Viber is something which I have not tried recently but offline chat backups.

Yes, this is about viable WhatsApp replacement for me and my friends.

Have you checked the official website of WhatsApp? You can only restore local backups if you are on older Android versions. On newer Androids it is only Google backup.

https://faq.whatsapp.com/6181521285295518/?helpref=hc_fnav&cms_platform=android Nowhere will you find reference to local backup other than this. And my experience confirms it.

You might have succeeded because you and I might have been part of A/B testing but this is going to be the future.

I think they do create a local backup for uploading to Google but do not restore from local backup.

No it does not do it now. Only option is cloud restore. I have done it last week.

Volume Control (Simple volume control application without unnecessary features) https://f-droid.org/packages/com.punksta.apps.volumecontrol/

How did you use it? They no longer allow restoring from local backup AFAIK?

They no longer allow local backup.