I have absolutely no faith in this project whatsoever, there is a 99% chance itll fail like all Linux phones and tbh they all deserve to. Not a single mobile Linux OEM has even the slightest idea what the average person wants, hell im a highly technical Linux enthusiast and it doesn’t even do what I want. The average person wants:

1. Long battery life
2. Fast charging
3. A good screen
4. Decent performance
5. A good camera
6. Software good enough to tie everything together in a cohesive experience (this one especially they lack in)

Meanwhile more technical people (such as myself) want:

1. Good security (both hardware level security and software level security)
2. A relockable bootloader (with it being locked from shipping)
3. Extended software support (including firmware and microcode updates)
4. The ability to seamlessly work on multiple different sim networks
5. Longevity (I should not need to get a new one once every three years)
6. Reparability
7. Software that can accommodate technical usecases without falling apart

Meanwhile Linux phones:

1. Can be a portable programming station (why??? No genuenly why would anyone want to do this??? Just get a cheap Thinkpad)
2. Can run desktop software (ok thats neat I guess but not neat when all the software is optimized for desktops, the downsides to this completely overshadow any tiny benefit this may provide)
3. Have support for multiple mobile Linux distros (congratulations, you have multiple choices and they all suck)
4. Have support multiple WMs/DEs (and they’re all either under maintained, not maintained at all, or they just suck)
5. Have extensive software customization (its a phone, why on earth would I want that???)
6. Are cheap (sometimes, also I can just get a cheap used Google Pixel 7)
7. Run faster (except not when you take into account the significantly worse hardware)

Yes but the act of dumping a game or acquiring it in any capacity is illegal (circumventing DRM measures) as well as running the game (which also requires circumventing DRM measures)

Yeah, sometimes there are software that just won’t have a Linux version. Thats to be expected because Linux isnt a Windows clone so itll never run all Windows software. If that software is important to you I would reccomend just installing Windows 11.

Wait I was wrong on the specifics, MacOS runs wine and thats what they use for their game translation software (some of Protons improvements have been upstreamed tho)

Proton literally runs on MacOS, all MacOS would need to do to get the same compatibility is to just not get in the way. All they need to do is release a Vulkan driver.

I have personally been using Linux for a few years now and I absolutely love it, however a lot of people will switch to Linux and be extremely disappointed. If you’re going into Linux expecting an open source Windows clone you’ll be solely mistaken. If you want an operating system that looks and works exactly like W11 youll be better off installing W11 and using something like classic shell. However if you’re willing to accept that its a completely different OS (so it naturally will work differently and have different software) then go ahead.

Pretty much, 1% of games don’t work on Linux and its the top 1% most popular games

Tempting

I feel like anyone could have seen this coming, if anything im surprised it didn’t happen sooner

Wait, TailsOS wasn’t created by the Tor project?