Most functional distro, as of now

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Thanks, everyone, for sharing your experiences. So far, I found the stock OS pretty unusable. Surely there are more recent versions, but it eats the battery quickly even with the charger plugged in. I didn't have time to do much with it.

Will try some of these others and see how it goes, or maybe I can simply update from stock.

Stoked about the new hardware, which brings it into a more modern class of phone performance. I think we'll be able to get the original to run decently but it sure doesn't hurt to have far better performance or more RAM.