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.

  • Emily (she/her)
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    1710 months ago

    When I was looking a couple years ago Ubuntu Touch was by far the most developed and stable. Primarily because Canonical poured millions of dollars into its development before giving it up and dropping it, but the community has gone a long way to make it what it is today.

    Probably not a popular choice on this community though.

    • sab
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      710 months ago

      It’s a friendly community, and Lomiri is a great DE that people have also gotten up and running on [other distros].

      For the time being it runs better on Android devices than on “pure” linux phones such as the PinePhone, but I have great experiences with it. If you don’t depend on other IM services than Signal you could probably use it as a daily driver on several phones already.

    • Possibly linux
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      110 months ago

      The community is very small and it is kind of broken in a bunch of ways.

      Its better to use Postmarket os or something else that’s more flexible