postmarketOS

“it's better in many ways (specs; your wallet; the environment) to just rescue an older Android phone and install postmarketOS on it”

“I tried using these with Linux with various different distributions, including PostmarketOS, and it was not a good experience.”

“I just installed postmarketOS on a 9 year old Asus smart phone (Snapdragon 430).”

“It runs almost-perfectly (sans camera) out-of-the-box on most Duets, and has for a while.”

“they're at least a target for PostmarketOS, even if that wiki doesn't actually describe something daily-driveable yet”

“People who utilize distro's like Ubuntu touch or postmarketOS demand that even firmware level binaries are open sourced.”

“postmarketOS, Mobian, PureOS, and many more already exist. Support them, if you think it's important.”

“Even on devices where it "works", it tends to be slow, buggy, very heavy on battery and some peripherals like GPS and camera very rarely work.”

“Fully mainstream Linux with a normal userland running on a modern handset with all features will unlock a tremendous amount of change once it's there.”

“postmarketOS has ZERO partnerships with any OEM, their device support is "as is" and done by volunteers”

“postmarketOS and other projects are working tirelessly at bringing Linux to phones”

“older ones which do are severely restricted in features, and often end up with several issues”

“I think with the current direction and velocity, pmOS is going to get really close to Android in usability on supported hardware”

“I highly recommend keeping an eye on postmarketOS blog.”

“postmarketOS device support is a joke, they couldn't even get ONE vendor to support the OS”

“postmarket is still seeing good development even if not having great hardware adapation at the moment”

“People are usually OK with options like postmarketOS (non-Android) or with the most popular distros like LineageOS.”

“My PinePhone runs postmarketOS and can technically run every modern Linux desktop "app".”

“very close to run PostmarketOS well, I have hope but for now few but critical features are missing”

“PostmarketOS may not be perfect as of now, but it would advance and progress so much if people were hired to work on it”

“The EU's NGI Zero in cooperation with NLNet has been funding quite a bit of postmarketOS”

“It's only thanks to the tireless work of postmarketOS etc. that some devices boot on modern kernels.”

“Postmarketos can run the containers, however a 4k desktop environment is still a bit sluggish”

“I've always been disappointed with postmarket for its intended purpose (it's supposed to be a phone os) but as a thin client OS it is best in class.”

“the on-screen keyboard doesn't open and trying to things like scaling are likely broken”

“Especially PostmarketOS seems very interesting, but rather underdocumented in some places.”

“You can get true linux phone 10x cheaper by buying something that supports PostmarketOS”

“aligned with these goals: free open source software, empowering users to control their own devices.”

“It's Alpine plus some extra stuff, including device tweaks and out-of-the-box desktop environments.”

“PostmarketOS is a bit simpler (or at least better documented) but it is not a full Linux distro.”

“You'd have full root access, sideloading etc and none of that corporate control”

“Very happy to see PostmarketOS take an uncompromising stance and also providing justification for it.”

“there is not even one "Main" phone with all of the hardware feature supported.”

“they're probably fine if you just want to turn your old phone into a palmtop-class device”

“Would switch to PostmarketOS tomorrow if there was any fully supported hardware”

“hardware support on postmarketOS community class devices has seen some nice improvements as of late”

“Please get in touch with the postmarketOS folks, since any phone old enough to be running CyanogenMod proper is most likely not supported there yet.”

“Today, we have Mobian, postmarketOS, PureOS and many more GNU/Linux OSes for smartphones.”

“It's not fully usable as a daily driver yet, but with some work it can get there.”

“I do not believe PostmarketOS would be doing as well as it is if they didn't have apps that play nicely with touch.”