Has anyone else noticed how much better PureOS on the Librem 5 got for the last 1-2 months?
General UI improvements, making things look modern
UI very smooth, almost non-existent stuttering
The on-screen keyboard is very responsive
Automatic Suspend now works as expected, letting calls and SMS through, so you can get a whole day of battery life
Lots of random crashes got fixed (in browser, the the settings app, etc)
3rd party apps keep improving and working better and better every day
If when I first both the Librem 5 (about a year ago) it had about 70% of the functionality of a normal phone. Now, I believe it reached 95% of the functionality of a normal.
Purism was saying the truth: āWhilst on other phones updates make your device worse, on the Librem 5, updates make your device better.ā
P.S. I also saw big speed improvements after running the command flatpak uninstall -unused, you should probably run it too.
(two dashes), unfortunately for me though it says ānothing unused to uninstallā. Maybe one of your past experiments left something laying around.
Enabling dark mode definitely gave L5 a big modern looking boost, IMO.
Yes itās definitely better than it was when I first got the device. Iāve also noticedā¦ the price came way down didnāt it? I remember a price increase a while ago but 650 is pretty reasonable considering thereās no ācontract lock inā or payment plan needed.
My dual boot to Crimson gives me the impression that Crimson is better and faster in several ways. I never bothered to manually download Firefox enhancements, but Crimsonās Firefox has them so that it no longer flickers the menu and the buttons are no longer squashed together.
But then there are other weird issues like millipixels/āCameraā being nowhere to be found, and the Terminal app in Landscape modeās special code from Byzantium where you can always see the command youāre typing is gone so instead text floats away behind the keyboard. Even if we suppose there isnāt sabotage from big companies trying to change things upstream to bust Phosh (which as I get a little older and grow more cynical seems like something companies totally might do, while being able to safely hide behind the guise of āimprovementsā to the software), even so bringing order in the chaos is time consuming. So itās a little bit harder for me to be sure.
I still look at my phone as being something the other people will eventually take away, such that they will prescribe me one of the other kinds of phones instead. They want to and they all believe themselves to be in the right. I got on the help line for my cell provider and asked them for the MMS settings to fix Chatty on my phone. And they said the phone I am using is not compatible with their cell service, even though I didnāt tell them exactly what kind it was. But I guess it was because they asked me if it was āAndroid or iOSā and my answer was āno.ā
Thatās the infuriating part about the entire freedom and privacy struggle. Weāre doing the hard part trying to resist the dystopian future weāre clearly headed towards. And if we succeed, everything will be better for the ā99% massesā too. The people that are indifferent are bad enough, but at least they donāt actively work against a free world. There are some who do, and most of them donāt even have anything to gain out of it.
The breakage thing, Iām fairly sure thatās more about the fact that non-mainstream use cases are simply ignored. Actively trying to break things only comes when mainstream adoption begins.
