So PureOS 11 (crimson) on Librem 5 has become daily driveable, as evidenced by me upgrading the system of my daily driver to it and not having much to complain about. From oldoldstable to oldstable - heading towards modernity one step at a time 😂 #pureos #librem5 #linuxmobile #mobilelinux
@claudi I don't remember what the state of the images marked as "alpha" was, but I don't expect any upgradability issues in images generated from the current repos. Also, I performed an upgrade from Byzantium - the last time I flashed this phone was in early 2021, I'm not a fan of reinstalling from scratch 😜
@dos Keep up keeping up so that I can have a Linux phone one day! 😉
@Satiah Being able to have a Linux phone is a goal that had been achieved many years ago already. Now it's all about making it even better 😉
@dos Can you point me to a Linux phone then that I can do all the phone things reliably with? I'm no stranger to unlocking bootloaders and flashing ROMs. Linux is the only system I use.
@Satiah I'm using a Librem 5 and it's been reliable for phone things here. I have no real experience with other contemporary devices, so others would have to chime in for more recommendations.
@dos How is it with your phone? What distro do you have? Can you have a somewhat recent Plasma Mobile?🙂
@Satiah It's PureOS (as seen above 😁) with Phosh. Crimson has Plamo 5.27, but I'm yet to try it there. Dawn will have 6.3 though.
@Satiah I'm also daily driving a #Librem5 with most important think working for my use case: Volte calls and SMS (although I avoid both since #SaltTyphoon), 4G data, Wi-Fi, web browsing on Firefox, email, e2ee messaging and calls using #SignalApp, #DinoIM (XMPP), latest apps from Flathub, and of course the headphone jack!
#PureOS offers a solid, stable experience but in case you want to try something else, #postmarketOS (with phosh, KDE Plasma, Gnome, SXMO) and #Mobian also work on the Librem 5.
@opensourceopenmind Thanks a lot! 😀 This is exactly what I needed to know. I guess I know now what my next phone will be. 🤓
@dos Good to hear! I’m still reluctant to go that route as I’ve heard that upgrading from Crimson alpha to the upcoming stable Crimson release might require a clean install.