Am I ready for a PinePhone

[mrboring]

I'm interested in getting a PinePhone to have more control over what my phone actually does.  By comparison, my Moto G6 running some variant of Android is so slow for almost all things I do.  There's even a delay with each character I type in a text message, though it wasn't always this way.  It was never fast, but with my employers control over my phone, it seems to be much worse (they have this Duo and some other admin type thing they installed).  I believe they actually have more control over my phone than I ever had. 

I hate this.  When I click a character, I want it to appear, and not decide to do some other background server task.  Or at least make me think I'm only doing that thing.  Don't be scanning my keys, uploading things somewhere.  If I take a picture, *I* want to decide to send it to AWS, or not.  If I turn that off, I don't want Jeff Bezos turning that back on as it currently happens.

However, I read the start of the PinePhone wiki for installation instructions, and it sounds like I have to buy some separate card, download any supported image and hope that it works on my AT&T phone.  I've installed Linux before on a desktop, I don't mind the command line.  However, I have about a 3-4 hour limit before I start to curse, loose patience.

I'd like to take pictures, have good phone calls, send and receive messages, surf the web including watching youtube videos.

Will this work?

Thanks,
mrb