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The Discussion on Linux-based Phones.
Benefits:
- Hardware freedom.
- Perfect operating-system competition.
- Full utilization of specs.
- Phone lifespan raises to 10+ years.
- Less e-waste.
Linux Mobile Distros:
- Ubuntu Touch
- Sailfish
- FuriOS
- Postmarket OS
- Mobian
- Pure OS
- Plasma Mobile
- LuneOS
- openSUSE Mobile
- Nemomobile
- Droidian
- Mobile NixOS
- ExpidusOS
- Maemo Leste
- Manjaro Arm
- Tizen
- WebOS
Linux Mobile Hardware:
- Fairphone 5
- Volla Phone
- PinePhone
- FLX1
- Librem 5
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Linux on a phone sucks too. Hopefully, it won’t one day but for it now, it does. To be fair, I’ve only used Ubuntu Touch and PocketBlue. Of those two, Pocket Blue was better, in my opinion. PostmarketOS looks promising but I don’t have a device that will run it well. Too many key features don’t work on my OnePlus 6t at the moment.
For now, AOSP with FDROID is where it’s at.
Fingers crossed the new Jolla phone will be good
Jolla uses a downstream kernel and when the SoC manufacturer drops supports, usually after just a few years, you will no longer get updates with it.
That's why devices with mainline kernel support are great, you can use them until they literally fall apart.
For example Fairphone has devices that are well supported with a mainline kernel and those are repairable as well.
Also, keep in mind there are very few SailfishOS apps, compared to just regular Linux apps that run well with Phosh or KDE Plasma Mobile. You can often just use the exact same software as on the desktop, which is neat.
On SailfishOS, you'd probably have to make extensive use of the prorietary Android app support, which is just an LXC container running Android.
That way you'd run a downstream kernel with a Linux userland and an Android container on top instead of just a regular Linux system.
The reason most phones lose support in general is Qualcomm and their binary blobs.
I think what Fairphone does in part to greatly extend y phone life (at least initially) was to use an industrial version of the mobile chips they offer which they give support for way longer.
in curious about graphene I just want to put it on a non critical device (which I don't have) first.
Grapheme is generally good, Unfortunately they have very poor device support. They currently only support Pixel devices with reportedly adding some select Motorola devices later next year. They seem to refuse to branch out to more open hardware.