We know that you will post something about Librem 5 so there is no need for anyone else to do it.
It’s amusing to me that whenever I see a submission about Linux phones, I start looking for the obligatory @fsflover comment.
No bad feelings, fsflover, keep up the good work. I also can’t wait to post on here from a libre phone.
Re:FSF Announces Librephone Project
by tyler-dot-earth on Wednesday October 15, 2025 @03:03PM
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as someone who has followed this phone for a long time, it has had an image problem - fairly old hardware, early software/buggy, and bad customer service experiences.
i'm still pretty tempted to play with one.
> fairly old hardware
How new do you think the chosen Android hardware will be at the end of the promised reverse-engineering efforts?
See also: https://puri.sm/posts/the-danger-of-focusing-on-specs/
It's fast enough and stable enough to serve me (and many other people, including in the HN comments) as a daily driver.
> bad customer service experiences
This depends: Purism is a quite small company, and sometimes they take time to reply, but the community at forums.puri.sm has been really helpful. I'm a happy user.
Even the FSF themselves didn't mention it or provided any reasoning for choosing a Google-controlled operating system - despite recommending Librem 5 earlier [1]. What am I missing?
[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25504641
[1] https://www.fsf.org/givingguide/v11/