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Are Linux phones ready? (lemmy.zip)

submitted 2 weeks ago by shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip to c/linuxphones@lemmy.ca

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Starting September 30th, there's going to be a tsunami of Android users looking for an alternative system fleeing this developer verification malware.

In your opinion, are things like post market OS and the rest of the Linux phone ecosystem ready to take on these new users?

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[–] uuj8za@piefed.social 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Yeah, that's true. It's Linux, but it's not FOSS.

Given the lack of viable options and the importance of having an alternative, I'm worried about maintaining the status quo because we don't have a perfect solution. So I'm OK with SailfishOS being partly proprietary for now... and we should push them to open up more. Idk.