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Do you dislike your dependency on Android? To the rescue comes Mobile Linux "PostmarketOS" - Funded via Donations (link to 2025 Priorities -> Focus on Reliabilty, Audi, Camera, etc) (postmarketos.org)

submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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A notable mention is https://ubports.com/en/ which is different from postmarketos in a sense that ubports uses old kernels with heavy patches. That means: good support for things, but difficult future.

PostmarketOS uses the newest kernels and tries to integrate their patches into mainline kernel, so that the reliability is maintained with all kernel developers.

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[–] [email protected] 157 points 1 month ago (27 children)

I can't wait for Linux phones to be stable enough for a daily driver.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Good luck, phone hardware changes very fast though.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

I'm okay with an older phone, I just want basic features to work consistently and well. Maybe support a newer phone every 5 years or so to provide an upgrade path.

Basically, I'm okay with the GrapheneOS strategy of sticking to one product line.

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Eventually I'll try one. I feel like it can be like desktop Linux where it take a very many many long years until it starts to chip away at single digit values of market share

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 month ago (3 children)

It's worse. Linux desktop is only possible because of the relative consistency and openness of x86 PC hardware. Phones are nothing like that. At best we will have retro Linux handhelds with phone functionality.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (5 children)

It’s much less effort to have something based on Android open source project though.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

Realistically, I would probably try a google free Android long before I'd try a more pure linux phone

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Ive tried a couple of times, ended up bricking a phone and had to re-do another. Linux phones are hard to get set up (for certain models).

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