I have never bought anything from Purism but I have considered it. Now though, I have my doubts.
Any thoughts? Have you dealt with that company or their products? Are they legit?
It seems Louis has made his feelings towards Purism crystal-clear :)
Purism wants me to DELETE my video exposing their refund scam & delay tactic - answer is NO!
Fair warning: don’t play this with the sound on at the office, especially 16-17m in :)
AFAIK Librem were fine until they started to ship the actual hardware of the Librem 5. I know they sponsored or directly contributed to the software side of mobile Gnome and KDE Plasma mobile which is commendable. But I have heard a lot of issues with people not getting their Librem 5 for a long time now. Also if what Rossmann says is true about the security flaws then it doesn’t look good for Librem.
Luckily if you really want a Linux phone there are at least some alternatives now like the Pinephone or Pinephone Pro, or getting a phone supported by Postmarket OS.
Luckily if you really want a Linux phone
I don’t. I considered their laptops. But if the company is flaky, I’ll pass.
The reason I’m not interested in a Linux phone is because, sadly, I need a reliable daily driver phone that can run banking and official state apps on that are only distributed for Android and iOS. Mobile Linux is nowhere near as polished as Android and said apps don’t work in WayDroid / AnBox (I tried). So sadly, I need to run Android - albeit degoogled.
Chicken and egg problem: Linux on cellphones sucks because it’s not widely adopted (if it was, my bank would release a Linux version of their app) and it’s not widely adopted because it sucks.
The only thing i know about the phone is thatTechloree has complained about them ib the past.
You should watch this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=prNeLzMbytU
