I sigh every time I see a comment saying phones shipping with an OS using Libhybris/Halium are a "proper Linux phone". Like, they depend on an abstraction layer with an Android kernel and drivers to make the hardware function. Adding salt to the wound, most of these devices ship some sort of Mediatek chip which is unlikely to ever see any kind of Linux mainline port.
The best performing Linux phones right now are Android phones ported to mainline and #postmarketos. Linux first devices don't compare right now, but I really hope to see more hardware in this space eventually, for the sake of our freedom to dictate what we run on our devices, including the bootloader.
Also curious to know what devices people would/currently prefer, so there's a poll at the bottom if you wanna plop down an answer as you pass by.
#linuxphone #linuxmobile #mobilelinux
@carbonatedcaffeine > Linux first devices don't compare right now
How so? There's a good progress being made for post-Android phones and some devices become daily-driveable already, but I don't think any of them reaches anywhere near the Librem 5's level of maturity so far, and most (though not all) of the things where L5 isn't very mature yet are in fact properties of the software stack that are generally universal across devices.
