Anyone use one of those Linux phones like pine phone or librem.

I was looking at a few months ago but settled on a deggooled phone. Are there user friendly distros for them?

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Purism is a fucking scam company. Look intoFairPhonre or just do what most of us do: get a Pixel and reinstall without gapps

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Ah yes, Librem, 100$ aliexpress phone specs for flagship prices lol

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I don’t think so. They providing GNU/Linux phone and invest money into mobile development for Linux. I would not recommend buying their Librem (better buy PinePhone Pro instead if you want GNU/Linux), but they definitely not a scam company.

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I paid $2,000 for a laptop. It broke the same week it arrived. I returned it. They said they’d give me my money back.

That was about a year ago. I’m still waiting for my refund. They keep say it’s coming soon and won’t give me an ETA.

That’s not a scam?

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Wow, that’s sad to hear. You should have started with this :)

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Well I got the murena one so that is a degoolged phone

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Hows the experience with the phone? What have you noticed can be used and cant as far as app usage? (Ie games, social apps, etc)

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Well this one uses replacements for all the google back end stuff and a app lounge that gives a privacy rating and promotes foss apps. Since I don’t Facebook, Instagram, twitter, and I only used reddit the website, I don;t know how well those app run it. All the app I do use run fine. It does come with a Gb of cloud storage and a private email run by the developers.

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