It is a tradeoff in stability in exchange for better performance and usability. If you heavily use Firefox ESR like I do, I am certain you will appreciate what Crimson has to offer.
I recently installed Crimson on my Librem 5 USA, and I have noticed many changes. Here is a list of them, along with photos:
WPA3 works.
The Settings app is nearly fully adaptive (excluding Displays, File History and Trash, Time Zone, and potentially others).
Sometimes the adaptation is not triggered, so a workaround is to drag Quick Settings slightly down to redraw the screen.
In Appearance, there is now a Dark style/theme.
In Power, there are now Power Modes (Balanced and Power Saver).
In A…
You must reflash in order to use Crimson, so externally backup any important files, then follow these instructions below.
Currently, Crimson images are only built using Jenkins on Evergreen with the plain variant.
Flash a PureOS 10.3 image on a USB drive, then boot it.
Install git, then follow these steps up until you have finished installing the udev rules.
Download the librem5r4.img.xz from landing and u-boot-librem5.imx from mainline , then extract librem5r4.img.xz using Archive Manager to the root of librem5-flash-image; move u-boot-librem5.imx into the root of the same directory as well.
Execute this code, then follow the subsequent steps thereafter:
./scripts/librem5-flash-image --skip-download --dir ./
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