[breakfastduck]

But with a significantly reduced phone experience.

I see the benefit, but the phone isn’t anywhere near the quality of a high end android or iOS device in terms of hardware or general app availability.

Termux is clearly provide the opposite to what you’re suggesting - having a terminal available without sacrificing everything else.

[fsflover]

> in terms of hardware

https://source.puri.sm/Librem5/community-wiki/-/wikis/Freque...

Librem 5 has a number of features generally only found in high-end phones, such as USB 3, dual-role port, DisplayPort alt-mode, high resolution video out and a discrete audio DAC, but its CPU performance and its video processing capability are those of a low-spec phone from several years ago. For people who want to buy a phone that supports convergence or a specialized security/privacy phone, the price of the Librem 5 is very competitive with the other options on the market.

> general app availability

https://source.puri.sm/Librem5/community-wiki/-/wikis/Freque...

There is are a huge number of existing desktop Linux applications that can be adapted [not rewritten!] to run inside Phosh.

[breakfastduck]

Literally from your own quote...

>its CPU performance and its video processing capability are those of a low-spec phone from several years ago

That's enough for me to decide the experience isn't on par with a flagship Android or iPhone - but that's not what it's trying to be.

This isn't trying to be a phone - it's trying to be a mobile linux PC that you can also use as a phone and has the same form factor.

[fsflover]

Yes, this is all true. I did not try to say you were wrong. But I'm curious, what are you going to do with it? Why do you need the high-end performance?

(It can even run 3D games: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_HXQJkWjUQ)

[breakfastduck]

Apologies - didn't mean to seem argumentative.

Having a high end CPU isn't just for performance right now, my main concern would be longevity of the device.

[craftinator]

> This isn't trying to be a phone - it's trying to be a mobile linux PC that you can also use as a phone and has the same form factor.

You literally just described an Android phone to someone from 2006.

[fsflover]

Except Android never became what we expected from it. It restricts what you can do with it.

[craftinator]

Agreed. I think to a fairly tech literate person from the early 2000's it would look like an awesome Windows/Linux hybrid. To a sys admin from that time, it would look like a nasty, restrictive ball of crazy. I'm personally really interested in the librem phones because Id love to carry a fully functional Linux box in my pocket, something I could write shell scripts for and run them from simple GUIs.