Initially, I looked for an open source smartwatch that is sold with an opensource OS preinstalled. However, this was not really feasible.

  • PineTime had some really bad first hand reviews in addition to them being quite expensive in the EU.
  • Pebbles warranty is too low and it is rather expensive.

So as a second attempt I looked for operating systems that you can flash onto watches. I found Open-SmartWatch with OSW-OS and AsteroidOS. While I think that building your smart watch from scratch is cool, AsteroidOS looked more accessible and mature (just based on easy navigation and the feature list).

Sadly, the most supported watch is no longer available: TicWatch Pro 2018

So I thought I just mindlessly ask whether you have a different OS you would recommend or if you have a watch recommendation that is still available.

  • paper_moon@lemmy.world
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    8 hours ago

    Ugly open source software is my favorite because i know the feature set is gonna be freaking awesome. I remember when I first started to transition to open source as an idea 15 years ago, and the sometimes ugly software was hard to get used to at first, but then I realized the ugly software did so much more than the fancy windows stuff and i really started to get used to and even like the ugly stuff. It’s designed to do the thing it was designed to do, and stays out of my way, fantastic!