I want to donate to a linux phone. I believe in linux and I want a linux phone. Maybe we can use one in very few years as a normal daily driver. It’s getting closer and closer every month.

I want to donate that we get there sooner. But which project? I’m following postmarket but I’m not sure if they are the most promising. What’s your stance on this? To which project would you give your money to accellerate it?

Edit: I don’t want to buy a phone. I want to support the phone os devs. Sorry for the bad wording.

  • rah@feddit.ukEnglish
    123·
    10 months ago

    An Android phone isn’t what’s referred to when people say “Linux phone”. What they’re referring to is a phone running GNU/Linux, typically running one of the GNU/Linux phone shells/desktop environments.

    • ExLisper@linux.communityEnglish
      45·
      10 months ago

      I know and what I’m saying is that all those project are moving very slowly while projects like GraphneOS/LineageOS already offer open, privacy oriented phones with good hardware and lot’s of apps. This is simply where more effort is going, where we’re seeing more progress and our best chance at getting “Linux phones”.

      • rah@feddit.ukEnglish
        81·
        10 months ago

        I know

        Apparently not.

        projects like GraphneOS/LineageOS … our best chance at getting “Linux phones”.

        To repeat myself: an Android phone (for example, running GrapheneOS or LineageOS) isn’t a “Linux phone”.

    • Possibly linux@lemmy.zipEnglish
      26·
      10 months ago

      Not necessarily, F-droid combined with Lineage os or other free software ROM gives you the same freedoms are the Linux desktop does.