It looks like ubuntu touch on the fairphone 4 is nearly perfect, and the features that don’t work I won’t miss. I’m very tempted to buy a second hand fairphone 4, but I can’t really find much on the experience of ubuntu touch. How do you install apps? Are there repo’s that I can look at? And is it just branded ubuntu touch, or will any ubuntu apps made for arm work on ubuntu touch? If anybody has some links or personal experiences they could share, that would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks a lot in advance!

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@jeffreyosborne @joanisc The pixels don’t get some kind of security updates after about 4(? 5?) years. The advice is not to get one that’s past end-of-life, which only leaves pricey-ish ones. US$250 is pricey in my books.

Be all that as it may, highly recommend getting one (I have a 6a), and putting GrapheneOS on it and sitting back while everything works. (Except Merlin 🙁 ) I realize that’s not pure linux, but to me it’s outweighed by not having to fiddle around getting functionality.

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