@janvlug @okias While I agree that @purism did A LOT for our community (and I praise them for that), their kernel mainlining efforts seem to have stalled a while ago; the L5 kernel is still on 6.6 (now 2 LTS releases behind, and to be EOL'ed 1 year from now) and it currently requires more patches (based on the 400-ish commit count) than any other community-supported phone, if I'm not mistaken.

Until that changes, "mainlining" is sadly no longer a valid argument for recommending the #Librem5.

@okias For these reasons I prefer to buy also the hardware from a company that works on mainlining like the #Librem5 by @purism.

And yes, developing the software and OS is a huge (thus costly) endeavor.

Therefore it is possible to support the development of #PureOS with a total optional subscription:

https://shop.puri.sm/?s=pureos+subscription

Also the development is in the open. Here you can see the milestones:

https://source.puri.sm/groups/pureos/-/milestones

#mobilelinux

@mboelen Er zijn ook privacy respecterende telefoons. Denk bijvoorbeeld aan de #Librem5 van Purism:

https://puri.sm/products/librem-5/

Ja, er is een app gap, maar je hebt controle over je telefoon, je krijgt #privacy en je helpt het doorbreken van het surveillance hyperkapitalistische duopolie van Apple en Google.