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If you're comfortable with the pros and cons of an unlocked bootloader, you might consider phones on the LineageOS supported hardware list.
Thanks for the heads up. Will check. Any particular reason for LineageOS instead of any other linux?
Non-android mobile Linux is not mature enough yet.
I dont hear this often tbh. How do you figure?
By the fact that none of the apps I use day-to-day on my Android phone have viable alternatives on non-Android Linux.
I'd have to run Android inside a container on the mobile Linux which isn't the best experience and if I need to have Android running anyways, might aswell use regular android.
While it'd be cool to have, I don't really need a proper freedesktop userspace on my phone if I'm honest.
Android is also simply leagues ahead in mobile UI things.
I can see why this would make things difficult. This is what I use regularly. I know most of these should have proper browser apps. Do you think that would not work on postmarket os or mobile ubuntu for example?
I think you're mixing things up a bit. LineageOS, GrapheneOS etc. are not what people refer to as "mobile Linux", mobile Linux would be Ubuntu touch, mobian etc.
Btw. do you know about Sailfish OS?
Piggybacking off your comment I've been using SFOS as a daily driver for the past couple of years and while not perfect, it does work pretty well, somewhat of an ecosystem and it runs android apps pretty flawlessly. The UI is beautiful! If you want to get away from iOS/Android it's a decent choice.
Some parts are closed-source tho (UI secret sauce, some Jolla apps etc). The vast majority of it is open-source though and I trust the Finnish spiritual successor to maemo/nokia a lot more than a megacorp.
I have heard of it but damn, the design is sleek! :)
Mainly because, of the Android variants that I've seen, it has the best community and device support.
Sounds good. I‘ll check. I‘ll probably have to test multiple OSs anyway.