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  • Petter1@discuss.tchncs.detoLinux@lemmy.ml•If I wanted to buy a Linux phone, what would be my best options today?
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    10 days ago

    PostmarkedOS is a bit frustrating as it makes you jumping through many hoops if you want to install anything not 100% FoSS (due to alpine base)

    I personally think arch and mobian are the best options right now, using the phosh UI (I like gnome-mobile as well, but it is not as mobile friendly as phosh)

    Now to the hardware part, you have basically two options:

    1. Use a phone where most drivers are in the mainline kernel, but with bad performance due to weak SoC (e.g. pine phone pro)
    2. Use a phone with strong(er) SoC but relay on custom kernel from the phone brand, locking you in place of the version of the kernel they modified (e.g. oneplus 6, I think)

    At least this is how I remember it

    When we come to App support; you mostly have to rely on webApps for proprietary services like train ticket, uber, etc.

    For massages, I would recommend a Matrix server and the various bridges to third party messaging services that exist for it (be aware that some services consider a connection via bridge as incompatible with their ToS and may block you)