I would advise against it. Most of the Linux phones are really not “average user” friendly yet.

However if you have one of the well supported devices from here: https://devices.ubuntu-touch.io/ you can give it a try.

Number 1 rule is to try it out on a second phone. Do not try with your current phone. Just don’t.

Second rule : read the first rule again.

In all seriousness, I have had so much fun with mobile Linux OS’s, trying out different phones and OS’s but there’s a deep learning curve and at the end of the day, there is not one that is completely ready to be use as a daily driver or have all the apps that I need - looking at you DUO Mobile (2fa).

However there is /e/OS, where is degoogled, has a built in tracker blocker and uses microG. Use it as a daily driver on my One plus 6t but its technically still Android. Someone did mentioned Murena, same OS.

Buy a cheap supported phone off of EBay and have a go. If you have any questions, let me know.

Can they? Probably. Would they want to? Most certainly not. You lose a lot of functionality that you’re used to, and simple things become complicated. If you’re an average person, meaning you don’t really care that much about privacy, and you don’t really enjoy tinkering with things, then a Linux phone is just going to be a source of constant frustration.

@duckweed @linuxphones

I think, they are not quite there yet for the moment and the average user (but I am by no means a dev. or fluent in code).

However, I can really recommend you to look at alternative Android OS’es. Here it depends on what you want.

For Privacy, the best one is GrapheneOS. You can have all google stuff (apps and google services) running sandboxed. And you can create multiple users for different purposes: like one for your daily use, with no Gapps, and another one 1/