Welp, good news. This stupid annoying pos (not really annoying or a pos, but it took a bit) phone is finally up and running after way too much distro hopping and testing apps.
I have to say, it isn’t bad right now. Arch + Phosh. There are still a few quirks here and there, but not terrible.
Software is really what is holding back the device and Linux mobile overall imo. I do think XFCE mobile variant would run quite well on linux mobile, but I don’t have hope for the dev team to come out with one anytime soon.
A few terrible pictures, but it is almost 4 am here.
Themes that I settled on:
Dracula slim theme here: https://www.gnome-look.org/p/1687249/
And papirus icon theme in the repos.
To change the gtk theme I had to install gnome-shell-extensions and reboot. Probably a simple source of /etc/profile would’ve been fine.