Starting September 30th, there’s going to be a tsunami of Android users looking for an alternative system fleeing this developer verification malware.
In your opinion, are things like post market OS and the rest of the Linux phone ecosystem ready to take on these new users?
I looked into this a bit when my partner wanted a new phone. It looked like Linux phones weren’t quite ready for adoption by the masses and they were expensive compared to other Android based solutions
I didn’t find the expense to be the big issue so much as I don’t see a new-ish device that’s capable.
Postmarket OS, for example, appears to work the absolute best on the Google Pixel 3 and the OnePlus 6, and both of those are well past their production dates and are hard to get hold of.
I think they ought to put up a list somewhere of the newest devices they support with at least decent support such as your standard calling, texting, media, etc.
pmOS does have a list of supported devices, and for the list labeled “main” support, it’s empty, as they do not deem any if their currently supported devices (in the “community” or “testing” sections) to be usable/stable enough for daily use for the average person. Of the supported devices, it’s clearly labeled what does and doesn’t work for each device
Other spins like Mobian and Ubuntu Touch have similar pages too!
Note that the list is not to date though. (I get a bootloop on a device that should mostly work)
If you do find any issues with the wiki, make sure to report it on the Matrix server! When I had an issue with an instruction on the wiki, it turned out it was a workaround that was never supposed to be done by normal people (installing edge kernel on stable installation), and the wiki was edited nearly instantly! Really cool actually…
Thanks
It makes a lot more sense to put an OS on an existing phone. His phone is what needed replacing so I was looking for devices that ran Linux out of the box. He mostly wanted to avoid bloatware, telemetry and bullshit.
Fairphone 2-6 and Shiftphone 6 & 8 have relatively good pmos support for newer phones.
According to this recent post it seems one brave developer just made the microphone work with PMOS on FP6 and it does not yet work for calls. It looks quite far from being ready for the average user. https://ani.social/post/33936031
I factored in Mighty Cat’s recent driver upgrades into my calculations.
It seems on average the 6 Fairphone models are 64% functional while the Fairphone 6 is 73% the way there. Quite impressive for a year old phone.
I don’t know if I can get either a shift or fairphone here in the U.S.
You can order a fairphone through Murena
Okay, thanks!