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Really glad to see PostmarketOS becoming more viable as a daily driver - there are so many devices which should still work well, if not for Google making OS updates dependent on SoC vendors and carriers...

(e: yes I know there's Treble now but you'd really hope "multiple SPoFs who would all rather you bought the new phone" came up earlier as an issue with updating)

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> yes I know there's Treble now

"This is the 7th time we've fixed the Android lack of updates issues, and we're getting exceedingly efficient at it!"

What are the main differences between that and Mobian? I’d like to support one of these.

Admittedly not familiar with Mobian - I think the biggest differences are that postmarketOS is based on Alpine Linux (and musl in turn) and encourages porting to a wide variety of devices, while Mobian builds on Debian and attempts to provide more complete support for a smaller number of phones

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