Mastodawn

So, let's get back to daily driving Mainline Linux on mobile devices!

I've been running @postmarketOS on an ancient Samsung tablet from 2012. Gotta say, feels surreal that it runs linux 6.x when all the LineageOS unofficial builds for it run on linux 3.x ... quite impressive when you think about it :) (Hardware support is also pretty good, main issue is camera, and stylus which I managed to get working)
I use it for light web browsing and as a kind of smaller laptop when I'm too lazy to carry around my current x86_64 laptop ^^

Sure, pmOS is not yet fully ready, but you can always still find some usecases here and there and excuses to use it daily :)

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YSF Feb 21

@fun @postmarketOS it does feel like Linux from 20yrs ago. Some hardware worked and some didn't. People started writing drivers for stuff that didn't work and slowly things progressed. Look at where Linux support is today.

So as support grows for PostmarketOS, hopefully more support for hardware will as well.

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@ysb33rOrg @postmarketOS In a way it does, hardware-wise, but IMO software-wise it's a lot better, because all these userspace improvements that was made over the years, we basically get all of them for free :) sure, on a phone we still have work to do on the userspace, but we do get the modern software stack that already powers linux desktops