I have been daily driving a Linux smartphone for 18 months, AMA

I was always a smartphone early adopter. I have had blackberries, palm pilots, the first iphone on release date, switched to Android when 1.0 dropped, and have been on Linux for about 18 months now.

I started out with a Pinephone Pro and Mobian but currently daily a Nord N10 5G (billie!) running ubports/Ubuntu Touch. It's a halium device, which I've found to be the best balance of kernel tuning for battery life and usability while letting me have full Linux on top.

For me, this is not extremism, it's convenience: I find Linux much more usable and healthy than Android or iOS. I do not actively carry an Android or iOS device, even when traveling the world (I fly internationally about 4x a month for business).

My current setup is legitimately 0-compromise; while it has some bugs around the edges once in a while, it is more usable for me in my daily life than my previous phone, a Pixel 6 running both stock Android and Graphene at times.

I've been in pretty much any situation you can imagine with a smartphone dailying a Linux phone. If you are curious about my experience or thinking of making the jump, happy to answer any questions!