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We’ll have to wait and see…

I find hard toiImagine GOS went into a deal without clearly defining the parameters of the partnership, which in my silly mind assume it to include the specifications of the hardware, desired price point, amongst the many many other things.

Also an $800 phone would be $150 on the used market in the same few years.

Meanwhile there are some dudes from the West running around factories in China right now getting a custom phone built to their specifications. And somewhere between the two extremes lie a multitude of outcomes that would have been far better than this one.

I’d like to hear GOS official rationale to this one.

If Graphene is reading this: You just lost me and my family. Will look for other options. Woo hang on to the Pixels till we can’t.

Your car will also outlive any phone by decades…

Coming from MacOS into Linux and landing on Debian/Gnome encouraged me into the world of keyboard-driven navigation.

I got into customising keybindings and moved to a split programmable mech keyboard not too long after. Three years ago I made the switch to Sway and now on Niri (all transitions switched off) on my laptop. My desktop workstation still is on Gnome and I switch between the two machines (with full keyboard-driven navigation) seamlessly.

Yes, some extensions do break on updates but I use extensions very minimally and they get patched relatively quickly. For the experience Gnome provides, I dont mind the couple of days that “blur my shell” is broken. The DE remains stable and the keyboard-driven workflow is fast.

Now that I daily drive a WM (on my laptop) I am thankful I started on Gnome upon landing in Linux. It still remains the best keyboard-driven DE out of the box for Linux first-timers. Perhaps Cosmic will be the other DE in a few years.

I hope Gnome sticks to its phislosphy as it truly provides something unique, stable and a great entry point into the world of keyboard-driven workflows out of the box.

Mouse pointer is bloat… /s

Use a retired phone with no apps other than your music and the players (New Pipe, Archive Tune, etc) you want. Give your old phones a 2nd life without having to purchase another thing. Connect via WiFi and have a ball.