It really depends on what you want from your phone and what matters to you.

I recently got a refurbished OnePlus 9 and put lineage on it. I would have gone with a pixel and graphene, but pixels with more storage are hard to come by and expensive.

Find which roms are available for your phone and choose from there, or if you want to change the Asus phone, look at your target specs and which phone ROM combination you can find

Oh man! Sonique was my player of choice! Those free form skins were so fun

I’ve asked a similar question not long ago and the consensus was pixel, even though I had already ruled them out in my question.

I still haven’t changed phones but I’m leaning on a nothing 2a, since it’s reasonably priced for the storage that I want.

However, I’ve been looking at phones based on the specs I want and check XDA forums and see how active they are, in the hopes I get a phone popular enough that has long term community support

Fuck, now I wanna distro hop

I guess I never clicked lol

Yeah, I’m not shitting on it and I’m grateful to the people who fill it out, I’m just lazy

I rejected it on my steam deck, on my aging windows computer and on my Linux laptop.

I’m not going out of my way to give data to a private corporation

(Even if it’s a kawaii “good for consumer” corporation)

Yeah I know they’re all Xiaomi, but I haven’t looked in detail at what they offer, but good tip. In any case the idea is to go by popularity, so if there’s very similar phones from both brands I would go for the one that seems to have a more active community

yeah, I guess I was looking at a series that all come with 128, but even a 6 pro with more storage is still out of my budget currently 😭

I use it to store the anxiety that I’m running out of space. That, and a bunch of FLAC music :D

Oh! Good to know, fair warning lol

yeah, the relocking is honestly a very strong argument and I’ve thought about it. But like 128gb and no other version or expansion? Gurl…

oh yes! I’m considering an older Oneplus! They seem to have great support. The Oneplus One is still officially supported!

Yeah, and they’re good, and you have the option of graphene too, but they all come with very little storage and no expansion

Oh, I’ll check this, because I’ve just been installing the games through adding a non steam game through the desktop and it’s a bit annoying

As much as I love my steam deck and the os, I do wish it was slightly easier to install third party games.

I know it’s not hard and I’ve installed plenty, but like it’s so incredibly easy with steam that it’s made me lazy to even install games I already have on gog

Yes! I just kinda posted it as a rethorical question. I think it’s important to know where the money is really coming from :)

Sovereignty from whom though??

Turns out, the Germans.

Seems like a cool initiative

Growing up and up until about that generation, one of the big “console vs PC” arguments was that you could just plug the console in and start playing right away.

With a PC you had to at least start the computer and run the game, but a lot of times you had to fiddle with settings, config files, drivers and whatnot.

Clearly everyone forgot that argument as generations progressed and PC gaming got somewhat simpler and consoles more complicated