@max A thousand thanks, Max — from the entire Liberux team! It's truly a joy to have people like you supporting this project. We really hope to find that kind of success and see it spreading across media platforms. Your help means the world to us! #LinuxPhones #Liberux

@Liberux Just called via phone golem.de about this. I also wrote to heise.de. I invite everyone to get the word of this campaign out to whatever news page you read. It shouldn't be to hard to hit 1k devices and once this is done I remember from the librem5 campaign that the contributors continued rising until nearly 4k devices. #linuxphones

@triskelion @purism I appreciate what GrapheneOS and other projects are doing. I wish gOS good luck in:
- getting early access to future #AOSP sources as development is no longer public.
- fixing the myriad of #Google shenanigans with the OS and Chromium.
- getting mental health help for the main developer - he deserves all the help he can get.

Unlike gOS, #Linuxphone development is not riding on decades of Google funded development of the OS. Progress is therefore slower but it is improving gradually.

Besides #PureOS, there is also #Mobian and #postmarketOS - I especially look forward to the latter's future #ImmutableOS version which would have security benefits as well.

@spaceraser @dan @ossobuffo

Sadly, #LinuxPhones have made only marginal progress in the past six years.

The problem space is pretty vast, and ARM is a horrible hardware platform to develop FOSS software for. Zero hardware standardization or abstraction. Every new device is a totally new ball of wax.

FOSS Linux phones will happen when a hardware vendor wants it to happen.

@spaceraser @dan @ossobuffo

Sadly agreed. #LinuxPhones are purely a hobbyist zone right now.

Desktop Linux is 95% there, though.

I'm seriously considering switching my work machine from #Debian to #AuroraLinux, which is immutable #Fedora-based with #KDE #Plasma. I'm still quite happy with Debian, but I want to try something that I can recommend to my coworker who's currently stuck on Windows 10.

The only bummer is that the only distros I can whole-heartedly recommend to beginners are either Fedora or #Ubuntu-based. I cannot wholeheartedly endorse either Fedora as an org (too closely tied to #IBM) or Ubuntu (#Canonical, where is thy soul?).

I dearly love Debian, but a 2-year release cycle is just untenable today. Software changes far too quickly. I had some (minor) things break this year because even the compilers were too old. XD

@drew_belloc @noodlejetski I don't have a dock either. I do have a favourites row though, and currently these are the pinned apps (arranged in no particular order):

1. Calls by #GNOME & #Purism

2. Chats (#Chatty) by Purism & GNOME - supports #SMS, #Matrix, #XMPP

3. Contacts by GNOME

4. #Firefox web browser by #Mozilla

5. #SignalMessenger

6. GNOME Settings

7. #Phosh Mobile Settings

8. Tweaks by #postmarketOS

9. #Tuba (client for #Mastodon / #Fediverse)

10. #Kasts by #KDE

11. #DeltaChat ( #openstandards-based, #securityaudited, fast #e2ee chats over bloody #email!)

12. Files / #Nautilus by GNOME

All #FreeSoftware /Libre, #OpenSource #FOSS / #FLOSS : )

Note: The home screen and the app drawer / search / overview is all one and the same.