Comment by 01HNNWZ0MV43FF

15 days ago

I heard there are Linux based phones but I haven't tried any

Expensive (well, except pine) and behind but i buy them anyway, as I cannot stand this corporate crap.

  • What is the most tolerable of these phones, in your experience?

    • The Purism ones. They work mostly fine - outdated hardware sure, but it is all fast enough and works and is very usable as workstation of course depending on what you do. I do some rust, go, node dev and it works very well when plugged into a larger screen.

I've messed around with funky phones, and after having an emergency call fail on two different ones, I've decided not to mess about with them anymore (GrapheneOS on some random pixel and a funky e-ink phone). Maybe it works great on whatever linux phone you mean but my path forward has looked more like just always using secondhand androids until I can install fdroid anymore, and then just using a linux phone tethered to a dumbphone that can hotspot. Finding out you can't call emergency services when you really super duper need to is something I never want to risk happening to me again.