ReallyZen

Thinkpad / Debian / Gnome: Works.

Spinning cube and wobbly windows is all I need (on top of 100% pure gnome).

Not all of them, we were lucky I think. Yoga’s have it by their very 2-in-1 nature, nice little things, classy matte black like any Thinkpad should be.

All the best! My SO runs a T480s, the elegant one, for years now, switched to Debian after U went super-slow on her.

I went all fancy-schmancy with a Yoga x390, debian too.

Both cheap secondhand, both issue-free (and both with touchscreen!). Whish the official batteries where still available tho.

Fairphone is in the Netherlands, Murena in France but that doesn’t say where their support service is subcontracted. Tho I’d rather think it’s due to them being relatively small outfits.

👊 With you here now, F6 and /e/OS 👊

First day: this thing is bulky and heavy. e/OS has stupid unremoveable apps like “tasks”, “notes” and other calendar etc that you can’t get a list of and much less uninstall, feels like …android.

I just ordered a fairphone last Saturday, with /e/OS.

How’s life so far? How’s the available mobile network working for you?

2 completely different propositions :

• gOS is all about security - do you live in a Surveillance State? (The answer today is most probably yes)
• e/OS is all about🖕google - do you think google is a nefarious entity part of today’s world problems? (I think absolutely yes)

So your choice isn’t one because it’s apples and oranges. I can’t go for gOS because they don’t care about google, and it means I’d be waving around a pixel, I’d be a mobile billboard for google - and also if “someone” wants to get into my phone, they will anyway. A fairphone is another statement entirely, and with an alternate OS from a small French business it’s the most political choice I can make. Also, fuck google.

[edit] e/OS is built on LineageOS which runs on many many phones.