The Librem 5's PureOS is very nearly stock Debian and the Purism devs have been very diligent about getting their stuff upstreamed into mainline Linux and Debia

The Librem 5's PureOS is very nearly stock Debian and the Purism devs have been very diligent about getting their stuff upstreamed into mainline Linux and Debian. Pine doesn't employ software developers, but the Manjaro and Mobian communities are also doing their best to stay as close to stock desktop distributions as possible. A key difference between the Pi and both the Librem 5 and Pinephone is that the latter two made an explicit design choice to use stock-standard (nearly) blob-free hardware. Unlike Raspbian, which relies on a custom kernel, PureOS, Mobian, Manjaro, etc... are very nearly standard desktop operating systems, with relatively minor tweaks to system defaults. Heck, PureOS and Manjaro are desktop operating systems just running on the phone with mobile-oriented shell . There was a nice, related post on this from Purism a few days ago: https://puri.sm/posts/investing-in-real-convergence/ https://puri.sm/posts/investing-in-real-convergence/