Speaking from trying alternative Linux devices eg. Pine64 I'm just done with it. I bought almost all of it eg. both phones, newest arm tablet, laptop, earphones... but yeah end of the day it's just a PITA. I'm done with managing how my ram works or not having suspend. Unfortunately I'm not a god dev like megous to bust out a camera driver.
Get an old flagship for same price and get better use.
Yeah I pulled out. I wanted it to happen but idk it sucks. I hope in the future there are more options than just Apple/Android.
Tangent. I have this "fetish" it seems of low-powered compute. even though I don't need to eg. I have an i9 desktop. But it was cool to dock a phone/use it on a computer... but I guess right now you have to pay for it eg. a Samsung note flagship (even old) so you have enough ram. But it's like intentionally crippling yourself for a fantasy use case (my mindset) eg. writing code while traveling in another country with your phone. "But it would be cool to do".
In the future IDX will be there, just login to a dumb terminal but give up your ability for cloud too.
I don't think they will be around for long. Their products went from being the highly anticipated to most trashed for being totally non functional and hostile behaviour towards customers.
ge96|2 years ago
Speaking from trying alternative Linux devices eg. Pine64 I'm just done with it. I bought almost all of it eg. both phones, newest arm tablet, laptop, earphones... but yeah end of the day it's just a PITA. I'm done with managing how my ram works or not having suspend. Unfortunately I'm not a god dev like megous to bust out a camera driver.
Get an old flagship for same price and get better use.
Yeah I pulled out. I wanted it to happen but idk it sucks. I hope in the future there are more options than just Apple/Android.
Tangent. I have this "fetish" it seems of low-powered compute. even though I don't need to eg. I have an i9 desktop. But it was cool to dock a phone/use it on a computer... but I guess right now you have to pay for it eg. a Samsung note flagship (even old) so you have enough ram. But it's like intentionally crippling yourself for a fantasy use case (my mindset) eg. writing code while traveling in another country with your phone. "But it would be cool to do".
In the future IDX will be there, just login to a dumb terminal but give up your ability for cloud too.
crop_rotation|2 years ago
rodlette|2 years ago
Librem 5 is the most suitable/polished/stable daily driver for Linux Mobile at the moment.
Purism are funding a lot of the development (Phosh, in particular) that other phones benefit from.
Purism's other products don't seem to have as strong an advantage over their competitors though.
NewJazz|2 years ago
[1] https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/SHIFT_SHIFT6mq_(shift-axo...
fsflover|2 years ago
I'be been reading such statements on the Internet since their first Librem 5 announcement in 2017, or even earlier.