Let’s not forget now that Purism is a scam. Librem 5 is a joke.
I just received mine after waiting 3+ years actually. It is pretty sweet with waydroid and KDE connect. I’m still not daily driving it because of the lack of a maps application with navigation though.
On Sailfish OS I used to use Pure Maps, which seems to be available on Flathub. I don’t know if it works on the Librem 5 though, but you might want to give it a try? There’s also an optional dependency for offline maps.
I use Organic Maps on Android, but it also has a Linux version nowadays. I haven’t tried it, but if it’s the same codebase, that might work for you?
Really people still purchase from this company? I wonder how many years people we’ll have to wait to not get their tablet?
I’m really excited about Linux tablets, but quite apprehensive about Purism as a company. Starlabs’ new tablet does also seem like a compelling package, luckily.
From this blog review on June 2023, it seems that camera, WiFi and bluetooth are still not working properly.
PineTab2 seems more like a developer tinkering/testing device rather than a Linux tablet alternative for Android/iPad.
Yeah, that’s generally the idea behind Pine64 devices. Also note that they encourage you not to order if you expect refunds for issues like broken pixels.
They’re very cheap because of that though.
Since I don’t know either: could you tell me a bit about your thoughts about Starlabs and Purism?
I have some links saved about purism dramas, in case you are interested:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Zlatan-Todoric-Interview
https://old.reddit.com/r/Purism/comments/dmhfcz/purism_then_and_now/
https://old.reddit.com/r/Purism/comments/my8u2l/psa_librem_14_units_appear_to_have_been_modified/
https://old.reddit.com/r/Purism/comments/owahb4/librem_5_usa_read_before_ordering/
Purism’s corporate charter recognizes them as a social purpose corporation, it sounds very good in theory, but I think it’s been a struggle for them to pull off. Under this charter they’re supposed to value creating products and services that benefit society more than simply making profits. Unfortunately, I think being so idealistic has caused them to over promise and under deliver, as was the case with the Librem 5 phone imo.
In addition to what the other commenter said: AFAIK Starlabs is the only Europe based manufacturer that makes their own Linux based laptops (non Clevo/similar computers). I personally don’t have any experience with their stuff though, but I’ve never heard similar complaints about them that are levelled at Purism.
The Starlabs Starlite 5 looks much more interesting imo
Those are some… odd specs.
1TB NVME, OLED with an Intel N CPU?
the low power cpu bottleneck for nvme drives is pretty intense from what I know. These specs, to me, look like the equivalent of a tech youtuber just throwing together random hardware into a case to make a build video because it’s a slow week for content.
