I've been daily driving Linux phones for the last 18 years and I would never switch away. Sure, at the beginning it required you to make it your hobby, but you were being rewarded for it. Sometimes when I'm looking at Android/iOS devices being used over someone's shoulder I'm quite horrified at what I see and what people consider normal these days and so glad that my phone works for me rather than anyone else.

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denkmoon 37 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

What do you use? both in terms of hardware and software. I love the idea of a linux phone but I'm very skeptical.

	▲	seba_dos1 12 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		I'm currently using a Librem 5 with PureOS 11 and Phosh. PureOS is a bit behind on software releases compared to other available distros, but I find it to be the most polished and stable experience. In the past I have used a Neo Freerunner and then a Nokia N900. The former demanded plenty of your attention but could be made to work well enough, while the latter was a really nice yet exceptionally hackable consumer device. Before I switched to a Librem 5 I had carried a second phone with Android for about 3 years as the N900 was already too old for comfortable web browsing and there was nothing else on the market that I'd consider worth switching to for a while.

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skeptic_ai 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

What you can do with that phone that’s useful?

	▲	seba_dos1 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Everything I do online when I'm not in front of a PC I do on that phone. Web browsing, RSS, instant messaging, e-mail, social media, banking, navigation, public transport routing, TOTP auth, music playing, photo taking, weather checking, "smart" home stuff, conference agendas, occasionally some games or even software development (but not a lot these days - I used to program on my phone a lot when I was a teenager though). I even ran Jamulus on it to jam online during covid because it achieved better audio latency than my laptop, long before it got its Android port. Oh, and phone calling sometimes too, even though I've never been a big fan of that. Anything I need to, really.