Yeah this is the important bit to me. Valve does good work and contributes to FOSS, sure, but I’m not going to blindly follow everything they do. Right now the Linux phone space just flat out isn’t viable for daily drivers. If Valve are the first ones to really address this, cool! But I’m not going to put them on a pedestal over any other options.
Comment on [Discussion] Would you buy a Steam smart phone?
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
So a Linux phone that works?
On one hand I would love that. On the other hand it would have access to my steam games and that might be a problem
nfreak@lemmy.ml 9 hours ago
ulterno@programming.dev 8 hours ago
Considering that they are the only pro-Linux company in a position to start delivering to my country, that might just be my only option.
So, as long as they let me install custom stuff without restriction and have enough Linux support for the hardware they choose, they don’t even need to do any special repairability stuff for me to happily give them my money.nfreak@lemmy.ml 8 hours ago
Oh for sure. They’re no saints but they’re very far from the worst option out there, and they’ve been making some massive contributions to the linux space in general.
soulsource@discuss.tchncs.de 9 hours ago
Isn’t Sailfish OS already pretty much “a Linux phone that works”?
ewo@piefed.ca 5 hours ago
As someone who’s used a couple phones running SFOS, it’s worked pretty well. it’s not perfect/has some quirks but the UI is really nice and there’s a community of people making apps for it and the like. Plus it’s Linux which is nice.