The difference is that mobile phone hardware is commonly more locked down by default than x86 hardware. Whatever phone you have now likely has some weird shit on it that makes it really difficult to do anything but what the manufacturer wants you to do. What Microsoft is trying to do with Win11 and TPM 2.0, has basically already been done with many brands of smartphone. I’ve been trying to research affordable smartphones to daily drive that are also de-googled, and hours of research has resulted in me struggling to use a pinephone. The hardware, the software, they’re just not there, either. It’s not like desktop Linux where really it’s better than Windows if you give it a chance. Mobile FOSS OSes might be daily drivable if you try really hard.
What OS did you put on it and what issues have you run into? I’ve been considering the Pinephone Pro because it seemed both more flexible and cheaper than a Librem.
The difference is that mobile phone hardware is commonly more locked down by default than x86 hardware. Whatever phone you have now likely has some weird shit on it that makes it really difficult to do anything but what the manufacturer wants you to do. What Microsoft is trying to do with Win11 and TPM 2.0, has basically already been done with many brands of smartphone. I’ve been trying to research affordable smartphones to daily drive that are also de-googled, and hours of research has resulted in me struggling to use a pinephone. The hardware, the software, they’re just not there, either. It’s not like desktop Linux where really it’s better than Windows if you give it a chance. Mobile FOSS OSes might be daily drivable if you try really hard.
What OS did you put on it and what issues have you run into? I’ve been considering the Pinephone Pro because it seemed both more flexible and cheaper than a Librem.