What about Aura https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/aura

Oh! I’ve never heard of that one.

This is a nice list I’d consider for new phones.

• Murena (France) with /e/OS (France) on:
  • Fairphone (Netherlands)
  • Hiroh (USA)
  • SHIFTphone (Germany)
  • Teracube (USA)
• Punkt MC03 (Switzerland)
• Volla (Germany) with Volla OS or Ubuntu Touch (Germany)
• Jolla (Finland) with Sailfish OS (Finland)
• Purism Librem (USA, manufactured in the USA)

As a Canadian, yes please! Using the Euros sounds great too if it means less conversion fees.

Hard pass from me. Also just curious, AI written? Sorry if not.

I want to buy new and something I could reformat into Linux, like Fairphone despite it coming with Android. If that’s not possible, then at least buy new of a degoogled one.

Some people are mentioning they are already using open source phones in Canada.

This was a nice list I’d consider

• Murena (France) with /e/OS (France) on:
  • Fairphone (Netherlands)
  • Hiroh (USA)
  • SHIFTphone (Germany)
  • Teracube (USA)
• Punkt MC03 (Switzerland)
• Volla (Germany) with Volla OS or Ubuntu Touch (Germany)
• Jolla (Finland) with Sailfish OS (Finland)
• Purism Librem (USA, manufactured in the USA)

That’s how I felt it that its more the interface than functionality. Although I’ve never checked and compared with PhotoGimp

I’m curious what features Adobe has that FOSS is missing

But then you still have Adobe your PC which does nasty things to your PC, high seas or not.

Find FOSS alternatives like Gimp + Photoshop plugin (PhotoGimp), Krita, Inkscape.

Therr is no reason to be using Adobe in the 0-20 years, and definitely not in 2026.

This is how we do it: https://github.com/KenneyNL/Adobe-Alternatives#animate

Don’t get a pine phone.

It might sound weird, but,

if you can sell your phone, and buy the one you want second hand,

you might be able to land a compatible device without any financial lose.

On a side note, if you have a Chromebook or other laptops/desktops, you can reformat the BIOS to give you better control, more security, and less backdoors.

https://libreboot.org/

Phones are usually easier to find compatibility than tablets. If you check the websites for those operating systems, you will see what devices are compatible.

• https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Devices
• https://wiki.lineageos.org/devices/
• https://grapheneos.org/faq#supported-devices
• https://devices.ubuntu-touch.io/
• https://docs.sailfishos.org/Support/Supported_Devices/

Concerning apps, you will be able to run 99% for your apps. There are odd rare cases where some may not work. For those, you may find success by installing them through https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.aurora.store/ instead of the through the Google Play Store.

One is particular feature that doesn’t work is using the NFC wallet feature on phones, but you shouldn’t use those anyways because you’re giving an extra cut away to Google, Samsung, or Apple, on top of credit card fees from Mastercard, Visa, or the like.

Some banks apps don’t work on Graphene. All of mine never have any problems. It might be worth saving a click link on your phone your banks website instead if the app doesn’t work. https://privsec.dev/posts/android/banking-applications-compatibility-with-grapheneos/ Or instead consider switching banks.

Don’t use Brave.

Also use CoMaps with RHVoice.

Even better, under community builds here it looks like PostmarketOS supports Galaxy 9

https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Devices

If you reformat your phone before September will one of my mentioned operating systems, f-Droid will continue working.

If you really need a new phone, but do try to avoid it, buy one second hand one. Or buy a new one of these https://scribe.disroot.org/post/8920564 including Fairphone as an option.

f-droid’s website https://f-droid.org/ has a link to https://keepandroidopen.org/ which says in Google will lock down Android in September,

If you were planning on reformatting your phone to GrapheneOS, LineageOS, PostmarketOS, or UbuntuTouch, now is the time to do it.

As always, donate to the FOSS alternatives instead.

In the case of Youtube Premium, donate to Ad Blockers instead.

What should I use to clean and take rust off?