I am happy that you are happy. I was just reporting, to anyone who cares, about my particular happiness with PostmarketOS on the Librem 5. It is an operating system that I trust will receive and does receive constant software improvement updates. That has most certainly not been my experience with PureOS.
Additionaly, I have almost universally found that I end up fixing things on the device with very little support - outside this outstanding forum, of course.
Well, that is ultimately the issue. I want to rely on it but, given my prior experience, I do not have a lot of confidence that calls and texts will work appropriately. I simply am no longer willing to miss calls and texts. I also have children who rely on me which is more important to me than all the phone freedom fights.
I’ve to publicly thank you @carlosgonz about OpenRC: trying to substitute default keyboard on Mobian with squeekboard I tried to uninstall the default one (phosh-osk-stevia) but apt told me that I was also uninstalling 25 files!!! Those files were phosh-base, phosh-phone,… so I had to keep installed an unused keyboard just to prevent to delete everything on my Librem 5!!! That’s unacceptable!! It’s really stupid for me!! So, finally, I decided to go back to PostmarketOS that’s deeply modular (GNU/Linux philosophy I remember what said Carlos: 1 file that makes 1 thing very well!) and still thanks to Carlos I remember talking about systemd (a huge meta package vs OpenRC, very light and without a lot of dependencies!! That’s Freedom for me! To be able to uninstall something I don’t need substituting it with what I want without break the system and avoiding to keep something installed that I don’t want!)
I’ll be happy to update constantly my experience in PostmarketOS! Thank you
As the user of the Librem 5, I really like PostmarketOS on my Librem 5, much better than PureOS. The environment is much better, you have a real desktop, and everything looks and works better. With PostmarketOS, you get much more of a real smart cell phone experience.
But as the device maintainer, I don’t like PostmarketOS as much. Alpine Linux is not as intuitive as Debian or other common distros. So finding and installing new programs in PostmarketOS can be difficult and not intuitive.
Although it’s very unlikely to happen, I would like to see Purism abandon PureOS and Gnome, and focus all of their Librem 5 development work on PostmarketOS or something with KDE. Comparatively, Gnome is boaring and drab looking. The PureOS App Store is usually broken or at best, very slow and unresponsive.
Dear Veleno i will never try Postmarket, i prefer to have my Librem 5 as a museum piece before installing PMOS on my beloved L5 or any devices, i just hate pmos more than mobian.
It is true that PMOS has some interesting things, but i do not like the way how it is get done, not to mention that pmos it is not pure GNU, which is a crucial characteristic to me for many reason.
In my opinion, PMOS and Mobian do more harm than good with their existence for Gnu/Linux Mobile. To me PMOS and Mobian are senecent-systems(zombies).
The point is, the last i heard about PMOS was that they were porting Systemd to PMOS, which i do not know if it replaced openrc fully.
Thank you for your feedback, Carlos!! So which OS is the least worst for you?
I know the ideal top would be Gnu/Linux with OpenRC (lego style as I like to call it) but, at the moment, just to avoid to continue to leave my L5 into drawer since it arrived to me and don’t trusting anymore to Purism, what do you suggest, please?
Not easy to respond as All is bad at some degrees, including PureOS as ship SystemD and Linux than GnuLinux(LinuxLibre).
The problem is that open source developers love free bug-fixes, regardless of users and GNU/Linux system ethics. This is one of the reasons for the monopoly of Systemd and Wayland, which also affects the entire GNU/Linux ecosystem. Right now, there is no democracy in GNU/Linux. Linux, along with open-source and vendors, are king and users are slave.
But the best os for L5 could be Dawn.
QT it a key piece of software modular for embeded devices, so Dawn+Plasma could be the key for L5.
GTK is not for embeded framework.
Can I ask you about your experience with Gnome-Calls and the calling experience on PostmarketOS? I am still experiencing some of the headaches with making and answering phone calls. What cellular service are you using, if you do not mind me asking?