Purism & Pine64 Have A Roadblock To The Success of Linux Phones

Hardware Librem 5
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A thought regarding the on-ramp:
I’m relatively new to the Linux space, but I’ve been getting familiar with PureOS on a cheap spare PC… so that I know how it works once I’m able to afford the actual phone. I can solidly recommend that as a potential on-ramp for others… Try just the OS on a spare cheap old laptop or something. The phone is allegedly just a shrunk down desktop OS, so I’ll have 100x more familiarity with the ecosystem when I get my phone than the newbies coming straight from Windows.

Regards,
Your fellow rebel scum :wink:

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Good call, the great thing about linux is it will run on just about anything so you can dumpster dive the e-waste bin and find something that will run it…I could be speaking from experience…you’d be amazed how much a telco sends to ewaste. I snap up the laptop batteries for those 18650’s so I can build a power source for my deflector shield…

Red 5…

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