Phosh 2025 in Retrospect

11 points by ThinkChaos

lytedev

I've been daily driving this for a couple days now and it's awesome to see the progress in open source mobile software!

ThinkChaos

What hardware are you using?

I'm riding out my current iPhone 11, but already keeping an eye out on options for the replacement.
- lytedev
  
  I'm using an original PinePhone. If you are looking for a delightful mobile experience, I do not recommend it. I'm trying to avoid lazy phone use and cheap dopamine while also having the ability to use a tool (albeit slowly) if I need.
  
  I believe there is OnePlus and fairphone hardware out there that works much more as expected, though I'm not sure mobile-nixos (which I am using) is as well-supported. PostmarketOS was also an excellent experience for me.
  - ThinkChaos
    
    I'm not aiming for a perfectly smooth UX but I'd rather invest in modern hardware so it lasts a while. Ideally with a headphone jack (and one that doesn't sound terrible).
    
    How's your mobile-nixos experience?
    I haven't looked into it in the last couple years, and am leaning more towards PostmarketOS. I'm a bit afraid it'd be annoying to tweak things on the go with NixOS.
    
    gnafuthegreat
    
    The OnePlus 6 (not 6T) has a headphone jack and seems to be getting a lot of attention from the postmarketOS folks. I know some people who run postmarketOS on that hardware already, and I have a spare I really need to try it on. I find it to be new enough hardware that the performance is decent while old enough that you can find them fairly cheap and battery replacements don't cost much (though both of mine are still rocking their original batteries just fine with LineageOS). It's been a great Google-free Android device for me, and I'm looking forward to extending its life even further with mainline Linux and either Phosh or Plasma Mobile.
  - greenheart
    
    Looks like another very productive year! Happy to see more people getting involved in improving the mobile Linux experience. Hopefully we can make it ready for projects like these ready for a massive influx of users before Android becomes completely proprietary.