Well done to the whole PureOS team. PureOS is the daily driver for my small NGO and it has served us brilliantly for 18 months now. You get slammed with this whole line of argument that this is just Debian with non-free removed, but I know full-well that this is not the case. The out-of-the-box experience is near flawless and that is testament to the QA you all have done, knowing the spit-and-polish issues that you are faced with trying to get stock Debian to be a workstation. Your decision to stick with Debian Stable was a very good one, not least because it makes the Heads/Pureboot framework much less cumbersome with too many frequent updates. And your decision not to add too much jazz to stock Gnome (but also shipping Tweaks! Why don’t others do that?) was also a very good one in that you aren’t faced with little weird issues and breakages.
Leaving the phone aside, I like to think of Purism as a company that takes great ideas that are half-arsed implemented by others, and brings them to their potential. Heads is a significantly better thing, thanks to Purism. The Nitrokey is a significantly better thing thanks to Purism (mostly because the manual is SO much better than Nitrokey’s, but also its usage generally as a tamper-detector). Debian-Gnome is a significantly better workstation thanks to Purism (note I say workstation here, not server and all the rest). And FSF-approved distros are significantly more user-friendly thanks to Purism and PureOS. None of these are Purism’s concepts. But all of them are Purism doing what linux needs; building off and incrementally improving great ideas with QA, user-friendly manuals, and a bit of sexy marketing.
Well done all.