So who is the strongest contender here? I hear stuff about pinephone, then nothing. Fairphone, more silence. Purism, so much silence.

I will happily pay someone now for a half decent phone so that by the time android is fully enshittified we all have a place to go.

Linux phones better be perfect or they’re not worth pursuing waaaaah.

My next phone will be a Linux phone. Might be an old refurb. But if Google is fucking up android I don't have a choice.

Full advantage, of their hardware from 1996 /s

Maybe a slight exaggeration but I'm really tired of Linux phones that are charging flagship prices for mid grade hardware from 10 years ago. I don't expect the latest chip by any means but fuckin come on.

I say this as a full time arch user of the past 10 years lol. I love linux and want kde mobile on my phone. I would just like one from this century is all

They just posted this today. Do with it what you will.

https://news.itsfoss.com/furi-labs-flx1s/

Now, why not just fork AOSP a la grapheneos?

Why we always have to invent something new? Why not just take the fork in the road and go build something better from it?

Thinking modern os, not even google has been able to do it (fuchsia).

If you say it’s hard to install use the https://sailmates.net/ service then advocate that your local repair shop also offer this service then join your distro’s channel for troubleshooting.

NLNet really needs to start funding Flare, the GTK Signal client. If there was a native, fully featured client, I'd drop flaship price on a Linux phone yesterday!

We've been 'setting up the ground work' for Linux on Desktop and Phones for decades. It's not the groundwork that's the issue, it's adoption.

Dreaming about this since more than a decade. My issues are banking apps, health related apps and basically anything somewhat official. A lot of them won't even work on a rooted Android device. How are things looking in that regard with Linux phone projects?

I have a work phone I can fall back to in the worst case scenario, and I have been consciously avoiding phone use a lot lately.

I am ready to ride out some bugs in a Linux phone.

Edit to add: Or, given the state of the US government and its potential close ties to various tech oligarchs, maybe I should just keep this old iphone as long as possible and just not put anything sensitive on it. I mean we're talking about violent people who think "if you have nothing to hide you have nothing to worry about" is unassailable logic.

I support this so much, however due to work, I can not get away from Android/iOS. Many companies want you to install Microsoft Authenticator with this generally wanting to prompt you for MFA authorisation when accessing company resources. On top of this they often want you running Company Portal on your device too if you're accessing resources such as emails or IM

Genuinely interested, but any time I look into it it requires hardware that's expensive to import or many years out of date.

The oldest phone I still have lying around is my Pixel 7 that was my initial jump into GrapheneOS, I haven't found any distros that are compatible with a Pixel newer than a 4a. If anyone knows of a compatible distro I'd make the jump.

The only thing I need on a phone is too use nfc

I wish that there were better kernels around. A monopoly (Windows on a desktop, Linux on a phone - well, at least iOS still has BSD) is not a good thing on any platform.

wish my phone wasn't carrier locked so I could switch to graphine

crys in dusty pinephone(not pro) on my shelf