It has now been what, about two months(?) since i dabbled into the realm of Postmarketos… what is my conclusion so far?

Well, it works. I switched from SXMO to phosh about a month after my initial installation of the system because i simply did not get used to the “tiling window manager on smartphone” thing after my initial enthusiasm faded. Phosh is much more touch oriented and mostly stays out of the way. I CAN imagine, that SXMO would work very well if you had a smartphone with an integrated keyboard, but with a touch only interface i simply could not get used to it.

Calling⌗

Well, shortly after my last entry the problem with the not working voice calls on the Oneplus 6 was resolved by the PostmarketOS team. This was the second cause of my switch to phosh: I never was able to reproducable make calls (even after the issue was resolved) using SXMO, with phosh on the other hand it mostly works (though… sometimes a restart of the modemmanager service is needed).

Camera⌗

No luck so far, but on the other hand this is a great motivating factor for me to more often fall back to my analog photography hobby and bring a “proper” camera along.

Well… regarding the wiki there is movement in this sector and supposedly you can get the GPS to cooperate, but i have not yet tried this out.

So far - with Phosh - PostmarketOS is for my personal needs a good smartphone os. Yes it has its rough edges and is still under heavy developement but the downsides are really good compensated by the fact that you get a tiny Linux workstation in your pocket.