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which linux phone is the most promising? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I want to donate to a linux phone. I believe in linux and I want a linux phone. Maybe we can use one in very few years as a normal daily driver. It's getting closer and closer every month.

I want to donate that we get there sooner. But which project? I'm following postmarket but I'm not sure if they are the most promising. What's your stance on this? To which project would you give your money to accellerate it?

Edit: I don't want to buy a phone. I want to support the phone os devs. Sorry for the bad wording.

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[–] [email protected] 76 points 9 months ago (2 children)

In my opinion postmarketOS is the most promising mobile Linux OS now. But the phones? Only OnePlus 6 is good. PinePhone is a project to look at as well but the hardware is not as good from the regular user's perspective

[–] [email protected] 37 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Pine64 has also had terrible communication for a while now and their site has had technical issues for a month. They have not filled me with confidence as of late.

postmarketOS is great though.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago

Does anyone know what's going on?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Well, I can at least say that any of my recent orders promptly arrived in perfect working condition, even though the communication is absolutely very lacking.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I think the Fairphone 4 is also worth checking out. It works great with Ubuntu Touch, SailfishOS seems to be doing well on the device, and there's developments towards PostmarketOS. :)

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Fairphone looks really cool, but I feel like too big for my weak little hands

I'd probably just refurb an old old Android phone. Would love to buy hardware that is more ethically sourced though

[–] [email protected] 19 points 9 months ago

In the end, nothing is better than second hand!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Ubuntu Touch is almost dead, Sailfish is proprietary and many many phones have that kind of postmarketOS support. I'm talking about things that are already usable

[–] [email protected] 24 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Why do you think Ubuntu Touch is almost dead? The development community is pretty active. They recently finished the huge task of upgrading to 20.04, and are hard at work getting up to speed with 24.04, at which point they will have paid back a lot of technical debt.

Ubuntu Touch on a supported device is probably the most usable experience you can have with Linux phones as a daily driver at the moment, especially as Waydroid runs quite well on many devices to fill the gaps.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Oh I thought they weren't planning to update it further than 20.04