• BCBoy911@lemmy.ca
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    3 days ago

    Jolla Sailfish OS. Can buy a phone from them preinstalled, or flash certain Sony Xperia devices with the OS. Runs smooth as butter and has 2+ day long battery life according to owners. Its based on the old MeeGo project from Nokia back in the day and is based on Debian.

    If you want something more Linux-like then the FLX1 is it. It runs very close to stock Debian Stable with Posh as the UI, but it runs some Android code underneath for device drivers, so its not a “pure” Linux system, but it’s a very good experience and still not controlled by Google.

    I wouldnt recommend Fairphone if you want to do Linux stuff with it, it’s a perfect AOSP or LineageOS device though.

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      3 days ago

      I wouldnt recommend Fairphone if you want to do Linux stuff with it, it’s a perfect AOSP or LineageOS device though.

      Why not? Ubuntu Touch lists Fairphone 4 and 5 as 100% fully optimized and even writes “The Fairphone 5 is currently the best supported device with Ubuntu Touch.” I am curious to try this out.

      I know there are postmarketOS build for Fairphone as well (but more limited in functionality, so I am not considering this yet).

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      2 days ago

      Can buy a phone from them preinstalled

      If you’re in the EU… they don’t ship to North America sadly