At this point, you can just run full GNU/Linux on a phone. Sent from my Librem 5.
I went down this rabbit hole trying to see how to make the non-gaming side of a Steam handheld feel like a tablet, and was surprised/disappointed at how spartan the touch-based Linux ecosystem is. There are half a dozen projects trying to make it happen, but they're all really small and mostly independent. There's one guy working on GNOME for mobile, one working on the Maui system for Nitrux…. Canonical gave up on Ubuntu for mobile, so some guy revived that. I haven't been able to try Plasma Mobile 6 because it's not packaged for NixOS, but v5 wasn't usable. Phosh was poorly packaged as well, so I didn't invest much effort there.
Making a good touch UI is a ton of work, but the space so far seems to be mostly filled with people doing hobby projects (or closed ones like Sailfish).
Phosh comes with some OSes by default: https://phosh.mobi/faq/
> "Is it any good?" is its own question.
Depends on your needs. Daily driver for me.
if only switching banks for such things was easy and realistically doable...
hate that banking apps are such a hassle to live with, but i do kinda get why they're very protective.
I am not sure if a typical Android with a bunch of (preinstalled!) crappy apps is more secure than a GNU/Linux phone relying solely on FLOSS repos.
Changing banks can be easier or harder, depending on your country. People do it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40678203
> changing banks can be easier or harder
well the process of changing banks is not the problem, i did leave UBS and Credit Suisse a couple of years ago. but now i'm with a bank i specifically chose because they're actually not financing wars or other unethical things, instead of just saying so for greenwashing purposes. this aspect is more important to me than them open-sourcing their infrastructure.
Not exactly: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40715542
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40714796
Indeed, finding a bank reasonable from every side is much harder.