Purism Reviews
A sampling of customer testimonials and Purism reviews highlighting the dedication and value of what Purism brings to numerous happy customers.
A sampling of customer testimonials and Purism reviews highlighting the dedication and value of what Purism brings to numerous happy customers.
Great thanks to the Purism team, to the tenacity of the leadership to do what needed to be done to survive and to all those that either paid the price or are committed to the product line, the vision of freedom for all and to building out a vibrant community of collaborators.
Through all the difficulties both good and bad thank you for making this device w/ hardware kill switches. The fact I am not using an Apple or Android device is pretty freeing. Coming from an IT professional that manages 200+ user devices from iOS to Android Graphene OS this is a truly fresh breathe of air in my opinion. It accomplishes almost everything I need minus a few items from two months of use. Thank you everyone at Purism and the community for making this device possible.
I just wanted to say thank you to the Purism team for taking a risk and creating the Librem 5. I’m getting so sick of privacy breaches and people having “all their eggs in one basket”…as they say… Google, iOS, Windows, etc. I set a goal to take control of my data and I’m excited to be free of all these ad-riddled, non private/secure products and services.
Thank you so much, Purism team, for pushing through all the struggles to make this happen. You’re making something unique and special that will give us all a chance to actually be free of the predatory smartphone ecosystems that dominate the market today.
A quick Purism review: I have posted at least a half dozen dumb questions on this forum since purchasing my Purism laptop and I have gotten great advice without any smugness or condescension from any number of people. I will single out mladen for special praise for his courtesy. I think it rubs off. Thank you to everyone who answers!
Well done to the whole PureOS team. PureOS is the daily driver for my small NGO and it has served us brilliantly for 18 months now. You get slammed with this whole line of argument that this is just Debian with non-free removed, but I know full-well that this is not the case. The out-of-the-box experience is near flawless and that is testament to the QA you all have done, knowing the spit-and-polish issues that you are faced with trying to get stock Debian to be a workstation. Your decision to stick with Debian Stable was a very good one, not least because it makes the Heads/Pureboot framework much less cumbersome with too many frequent updates. And your decision not to add too much jazz to stock Gnome (but also shipping Tweaks! Why don’t others do that?) was also a very good one in that you aren’t faced with little weird issues and breakages. Leaving the phone aside, a quick thanks and Purism review; as a company that takes great ideas that are half-arsed implemented by others, and brings them to their potential. Heads is a significantly better thing, thanks to Purism. The Nitrokey is a significantly better thing thanks to Purism (mostly because the manual is SO much better than Nitrokey’s, but also its usage generally as a tamper-detector). Debian-Gnome is a significantly better workstation thanks to Purism (note I say workstation here, not server and all the rest). And FSF-approved distros are significantly more user-friendly thanks to Purism and PureOS. None of these are Purism’s concepts. But all of them are Purism doing what linux needs; building off and incrementally improving great ideas with QA, user-friendly manuals, and a bit of sexy marketing.
Maintaining PureOS as stable as this gets might easily be one of the most important things out there for myself (trusting in great job they do, without ignoring great jobs and efforts from other Linux communities). After this, in addition, having Librem 5 being free of blobs, having capability of making phone calls, turning on and off few HKSs, etc., etc, etc. can easily, IMHO, make someone proud that such product exists. Another happy Purism review.
Hi dear Mladen, first of all, thanks for your help in solving the shipping issue a few weeks ago. I finally received the phone and I must say, it rocks. I tried other products and they are by far not as polished as the Librem 5. There is a lot of potential in it and I glad that I got one! I think the phone is revolutionary. It is a great device, and knowing how toxic the open source and free software community can be because there is always somebody unhappy with what people created with a lot of sweat, blood and tears, or someone who knows everything better, I really want to say to you people: Thank you for your work, thank you for making this device possible. I hope that your business is going really well with it! And I am looking forward to purchasing more of your stuff when the time comes … which might be quite soon.
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Just istalled #Phosh on my #NixOS Lenovo Thinkpad Tablet X1. I previously tried GNOME, but its touchscreen support is still shaky. Phosh, on the other hand, works perfectly fine for me in both tablet and laptop mode! Thanks @purism !!
I really think Purism is doing great things with their efforts to manufacture in the US.
It is still a significant achievement for Purism to do board assembly and final assembly of a smartphone in house in a developed country.
My Purism review is that you have made it possible to have a convenient mobile device that does not compromise freedom or security. In my mind, no other device meets this criteria right now. […] Among mobile devices, only the Librem 5 has a convenient set of kill switches for turning off all radios, cameras, microphones, and other sensors turned off in lockdown mode. In terms of both quality and performance, the Librem 5 easily outclasses its only competition in the GNU/Linux-first phone market.
I had a look at the recent Youtube video having a sneak peak at the new PureOS and I must say it looks unbelievably impressive. I must congratulate you guys on the effort, especially regarding adaptive technologies. Without this effort mobile on linux would be years behind what it is. I feel you don’t get the deserved praise.
Hi there Maties at Purism!! Thank you so much for the Librem 5. What a magnificent little machine, both in design and manufacture standards. Having a great time reading the pages of instructions, and have also shown the phone to an American lady out here, who once worked for the Telstra phone company. After spending five minutes checking out my phone, she was very impressed and will order one soon….which made me feel more secure with my purchase.
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An unusual request maybe, but now I would like to cancel my cancellation. That is, I’ve decided that I do not want my money back and I would like to receive the phone after all. The reason is that I have been monitoring the space for open phones that can run Linux for a while now. I started to realize how much I profit from the work your company did. I run Phosh, for instance. But also the popularity of the more general idea that it is actually possible to create such a device has benefited much of the work of Purism. With that in mind, it does not feel right to ask for my money back. So, thanks for the hard work and let the phone come whenever it comes.
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I forgot to say the most important thing, that I appreciate most about the #librem5 : that everything on it is free software, so when I try to help improving things that results in free software available for everyone. For me, this makes it so much better, both more fun and more meaningful, to be involved and contribute. It’s not just Librem 5 users who benefit, it’s any other #MobileLinux devices. Working towards a better world, with less Big Tech misery more freedom.
Thank you so much for everything! I will never forget how you went above and beyond with the repair and the PGPCard. It might not have meant a lot to you, but it meant the world to me. Just want to also say that I am extremely grateful that Purism exists. Please don’t get discouraged by the vocal minority on the internet saying mean things; the world is a better place thanks to Purism.
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I am very thankful for all the work Purism has done and continues to do enabling people to protect themselves from Google/Microsoft/Apple’s unconsented-to-stalking-for-profit. Please, keep pushing forward and innovating to protect people! You will have a lot of passionate and loyal customers if you do. Purism is a special company. Creating a mobile GNU/Linux interface, maintaining a fully-free operating system (PureOS), and adding usable kill switches to a phone (Librem 5) are all awesome accomplishments.
I want to thank you for the products you are creating, very impressed with the direction of the company based full on security and privacy, not easy nowadays. Already a client of yours with Librem 14 and now want to experience Librem 5.
Again congratulations for the hard work, and hope to keep experiencing products you created that gives peace of mind knowing we are more private and secure.
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