If you try F-Droid Basic (their more lightweight version that doesn’t do the remote sharing thing) you can see it already, the redesign has been available there for a while.

But I have to say I preferred being able to filter by just the whole wide category and sort it by new, instead of having to pick now a subcategory… specially for things that I don’t mind so much what’s the sub-genre, when I just want to browse, not nit-pick amongst a lot of specific subcategories.

Control4 and Sonos

You won’t find many apps that depend on third party closed source services. At least not in the official repos (there might be a few, but marked as having “anti-features”).

But imho, that is a good thing… I go to f-droid to find fully free and open source apps, for more corporate stuff you still can use the official store.

(Rant: I wish all these smart home companies fully embraced open standards like Matter… it’s annoying having to install a different proprietary app for every different brand of smart home device… F-Droid does have a Home Assistant client compatible with open standards, but it won’t work properly with locked-in proprietary systems)

A lot of my favorite apps are there.

Material Files, Librera reader, KeepassDX, Syncthing, AntennaPod, Seal, Echo, and a bunch of open source games like Unciv, Xeonjia and Shattered Pixel Dungeon, or Idle Fantasy if you like idle games.

If you are into self hosting (I am) they have multiple Jellyfin clients, Immich client, etc.

There’s also Lemmy clients.

And Termux if you are comfortable with tinkering in the terminal. I use it to run a privoxy and ssh server from my phone that I can connect to from my work computer. It helps me get past some firewalls.

I had heard the “PostmarketOS” name in the past but it never sparked my interest, the name made me think it was an OS made for some old obscure hardware that I’m likely to not own or that I would not be able to buy anymore. Either that, or a distro meant for old PCs.

I just found out that it comes shipped in PinePhones and that it’s actually a modern OS not necessarily constrained by a specific line of legacy hardware.

I think it’s better a name with no implicit meaning than a name with a misleading meaning. All names are obscure when they just appear, I don’t think “PostmarketOS” was such mainstream name.

I wouldn’t say I really care if the “community” is big or small (it’s also a bit unclear what you mean exactly, do you just mean user adoption?)… but I care about Linux (and in general, open source alternatives) being real options when it comes to hardware support, compatibility with services I might want to use, etc.

I don’t think you can have proper “progress” in those areas without having Linux be a recognized mainstream system. Like say… banks are unlikely to make an authenticator app for non-Android Linux phones if non-Android Linux phones are not mainstream, for example.

Yes, but then this would need to be paired with a more straightforward filtering system that people actually use.

Otherwise, I’m certain that there’s gonna be many people still annoyed at it, and who will vote negatively when they see something being advertised as AI. And that’s likely going to still incentivize people to not disclose it and try to hide it, with an inevitable cat-vs-mouse chase still.

Alternatively… have a /c/opensource-noai and/or a /c/opensource-ai