I want to donate to a linux phone. I believe in linux and I want a linux phone. Maybe we can use one in very few years as a normal daily driver. It’s getting closer and closer every month.

I want to donate that we get there sooner. But which project? I’m following postmarket but I’m not sure if they are the most promising. What’s your stance on this? To which project would you give your money to accellerate it?

Edit: I don’t want to buy a phone. I want to support the phone os devs. Sorry for the bad wording.

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    You do realize that kinda linux right? You’re right it’s closer to a boston accent but if you generally ask people about the american accent it’s not going to be boston they think of. I’m not denying it is based on the linux kernel because it is but Android is the most popular OS in the world, it can be it’s own label as opposed to saying it’s linux. To nit-pick further is some real “It’s not linux, it’s GNU/Linux” energy.

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      Yeah, I feel like at this point you’re not even disagreeing, you’re just saying I’m wrong because you don’t want to be wrong. You didn’t even give me anything to refute this time. That’s fine, you’re right, cheers.

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        I’m not saying you’re wrong, you’re totally right. I’m saying that you don’t understand colloquialisms. The type of person who would hear someone refer to salt intake in food as “sodium” and go on a tirade about how it’s sodium chloride and ignore that they fully understood what was meant but chooses to be as difficult as possible because they want to be right. Generally the type of stuff that would get people shoved in lockers.

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          Lol man, we’re just so far off topic from the point I was trying to make though, which is that a user friendly mobile experience built on linux is totally possible, it doesn’t have to be a “build-it-yourself” headache, it doesn’t require interfacing with a CLI, and we don’t even have to wonder if that’s true because it’s been done and is massively successful. That’s all. If you’d like to nitpick whether it’s “actually Linux” or “kinda Linux” I’m just gonna give you a swirly.

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            8 months ago

            I initially said it was based off linux not kinda linux and we’re here. I’m saying it’s kinda linux because Android is never referred to as a linux phone but an Android phone.