[zzril]

I've paid 200€ for my PinePhone. It is underpowered, but at least it doesn't have to waste its resources on rendering ads.

Where Android/iPhone users have "apps", I mostly end up writing small shell scripts around existing linux tools. My alarm clock "app" is realized via cron jobs; my TOTP "app" is a one-liner around `oathtool`.

Messenger apps are a bit tricky; I'll probably end up hosting my own matrix homeserver and then have bridges running for Signal and the likes.

[createful]

I'm not saying Linux phones are junk, but if you want more people to adopt these phones you do need "easier" solutions. Not everyone will want a cron job alarm.

Because if we leave linux phones in their current state then getting hardware for them will be difficult and the software will end up being a pain.

Adoption of Linux phones is kind of the only way that hardware for them will get more mainstream and will allow more people to use Linux phones. And adoption is partly helped by ease of use.