Comment by Klonoar
5 months ago
It is not nor should it be a showstopper. A functioning device that can be widely used helps build eg an app ecosystem. That part needs to exist and it doesn’t really matter if it’s Hallium or not.
This isn’t an all or nothing situation.
I guess I might agree, so long as that ecosystem is shared with Purism Librem 5 (a potentially sustainable device, if not affordable), and so long as a more affordable but also sustainable device (which means non-Hallium) will actually appear in response to this ecosystem stimulus.
At all times during the ecosystem stimulus, someone has to be keeping an eye on the real goal. Which is getting those affordable, trustworthy, sustainable hardware devices to become available.
(I've seen Linux handheld/phone projects fail for ~25 years, wasted lots of time and money on them, and would be happy to see something solve the hard problem of open drivers.)