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If you want to fund the Mobile Linux ecosystem, I believe it's better to buy a pinephone pro and donate the difference to GNOME, KDE or/and Ubport. Purism has some sketchy history (they refused to refund their customers and lied anawful lot of times) and if you buy a purism phone you will have a less powerful phone and will need to wait years before getting it.

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It depends on your goals. If you donate to the GNOME Foundation, your donation won't help develop Phosh (which is the leading mobile Linux interface according to 3 different PinePhone user surveys) and it probably won't be used to make GTK/GNOME ecosystem become adaptive and mobile-friendly. If your goal is to advance mobile Linux on the GTK/GNOME/Phosh platform, then ordering the Librem 5 is the best way to get funds to the 10 software devs working on it at Purism. See: https://source.puri.sm/Librem5/community-wiki/-/wikis/Freque...

I own both the PinePhone and Librem 5 USA, and I'm seriously impressed by the amount of work the Purism devs do for PinePhone users (who are the majority of the Phosh users).

I personally tell you that the full time Purism devs were instrumental in helping me port MMS/VVM to Phosh/Chatty (without their help, MMS/VVM would not exist for Mobile Linux) and they have gone well beyond what I would expect any company would do to help out Mobian/pmOS/overall PP/PPP development (they no doubt help out other distros too, but I don't interact as much in those areas).

I also have an L5 sitting on my desk that I am using full time, and have had it for several months by now.

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