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They do? You can install Windows on it if you want, and I'm pretty sure all the linuxes will support it like with previous Fairphones. What OS can you install on any other phone that FP doesn't offer?

e.g. here's the official manual for Ubuntu on FP4 https://support.fairphone.com/hc/en-us/articles/443616798209...

Edit: I think I'm mistaken about Windows. On https://www.digitec.ch/de/page/fairphone-5-im-test-ein-smart... I read Windows 11 but that's about the chip being powerful enough to run that, not that the phone specifically supports it



Older FPs don't have particularly great Linux support, btw. That's mostly the fault of Qualcomm, though.

https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Fairphone_2_(fairphone-fp...

https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Fairphone_3_(fairphone-fp...

https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Fairphone_4_(fairphone-fp...


It appears they've worked with the right folks to at least give them pre-launch access, so there's also a page for the FP5 already: https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Fairphone_5_(fairphone-fp...


That's cool, I think it's only because Z3ntu works at Fairphone, though.

https://nl.linkedin.com/in/luca-weiss?trk=public_post_feed-r...


Does that mean that Fairphone employs a pmOS contributor? Because if anything, that sounds even better :)


You can install something like CalyxOS on the Fairphone 4 just fine. My point is that I wish it had the option to ship with it, so I don't have to mess around with it.




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