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Based off of articles like this https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/linux-smartphone-operating-systems/ the best one, to me, looks like Plasma Mobile (which requires a Nexus 5).
Is anyone using a Linux-based mobile operating system? Do you have any advice?
Isn't android Linux based?
Isn't android Linux based?
You win!
Not for Christmas, but https://puri.sm/products/librem-5/ is coming next year.
The operating system was pretty solid, and I really liked the lock screen design and pull-out Unity sidebar. It was fast and sleek, but didn't quite yet have the polish of something like iOS - which of course is to be expected for something early in development.
As usual with less well-known mobile operating systems, there were very few apps available. You could get many of the hacker-y/privacy ones that us HN lot probably use, but if you wanted a 'mainstream' social app then you probably couldn't.
After a few months I did end up flashing Android onto the phone, mainly because of the early Ubuntu Touch versions lacking features.
Hardware wise, I still have the handset today and it's great - performance wise the phone was ahead of its time when it was released in 2014, and it still performs well.