unfortunately postmarketOS just barely qualifies as usable, and absolutely cannot be pushed as a serious option yet unless people are okay with turning their smartphone into a feature phone.
I have PMOS on a Xiaomi phone that’s supposed to be fairly well supported. It’s very laggy, freezes often and won’t charge when turned on. I really want to like it but it’s just not there.
Lineage with MicroG for now. Next phone will hopefully be whatever Graphene and Motorola are working on.
I don’t think people hearing “postmarketos is good” -trying it- and realizing it’s hilariously far from usable, counts as support…
by all means support the project, donate money and for the 3 people who are capable of it please do contribute to the codebase! But that’s not really what people are encouraging.
What about Sailfish? Also using /e/os, but I’ve only recently started looking into non Android phones and heard Sailfish is Linux but has Android compatibility?
It’s always better than any Android-forked option, but SailfishOS still has some closed-source parts. PostmarketOS is going for mainline kernel, with everything open, which is the goal we should strive for.
Already on /e/os on my primary phone, hoping to find time to try postmarketOS on the secondary one.
There is no better alternative than postmarketOS btw, everything else relies on Android or isn’t fully open.
unfortunately postmarketOS just barely qualifies as usable, and absolutely cannot be pushed as a serious option yet unless people are okay with turning their smartphone into a feature phone.
I have PMOS on a Xiaomi phone that’s supposed to be fairly well supported. It’s very laggy, freezes often and won’t charge when turned on. I really want to like it but it’s just not there.
Lineage with MicroG for now. Next phone will hopefully be whatever Graphene and Motorola are working on.
That’s why it needs support.
Linux desktops also needed lots of support before getting where we are now.
I don’t think people hearing “postmarketos is good” -trying it- and realizing it’s hilariously far from usable, counts as support…
by all means support the project, donate money and for the 3 people who are capable of it please do contribute to the codebase! But that’s not really what people are encouraging.
Imagine if support were given to a more worthy OS like BSD, or Haiku.
What about Sailfish? Also using /e/os, but I’ve only recently started looking into non Android phones and heard Sailfish is Linux but has Android compatibility?
It’s always better than any Android-forked option, but SailfishOS still has some closed-source parts. PostmarketOS is going for mainline kernel, with everything open, which is the goal we should strive for.