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@drascus
If you want to get it semi-quickly, you buy USA edition. I preordered Standard edition in 2019, got it this May. Software state is "fun to tinker with, but if you give this to a normie they will probably kill themselves in a matter of minutes."
There also still is some software essential to my workflow that doesn't fit on the phone screen, so I needed a dock to set it up with external display, mouse and keyboard.

RN it's a toy and a devkit, not an end-user product.
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@Hamartiogonic
Well, I don't want to sound like I'm victim-blaming, but I find it essential to research anything more significant than a pencil before purchase, not just premium (price-wise) phones.
In an ideal world you could trust marketing, but we don't live in that world, so even soviet monopoly marketing that didn't need to lie (or exist, because monopoly) did oversell it's products.
So I try to promote the idea of "lurk before you buy" any chance I get.

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@Hamartiogonic
I don't know who expexts it to be daily driver. You only need to spend like 15 minutes lurking, which seems reasons for a $1k purchase.
Purism markets it as the phone they aim for it to be, not the phone it is right now. Which is misleading, but in several years I hope it won't be anymore.
To be fair, I daily drive it. It just isn't my main device, I have an /e/os FP4 doing the heavy lifting an L5 doing /some/ stuff. And I charge L5 3 times as often as FP. But it's getting better.

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