Installing e/os on Fairphone: is the android version important?

[AnotherElk]

@thpar_eos

The Android 13 offered by “T-Official” is said to be “only available on Murena smartphones”. Does that mean I could not install this on my Fairphone 5 bought through the Fairphone store?

You can install official yourself on devices which get official builds, in the case of FP5 … /e/OS official FP5 download

The wording is a bit tricky to get right. You can install official on your Fairphone 5 because Murena sell the Fairphone 5 in their shop with official /e/OS builds preinstalled, but also make the official builds available to install for everybody owning a Fairphone 5, regardless where it was bought.

@thpar_eos

How “dangerous” is it to simply stick to the U-Community build and leave the bootloader unlocked?

@AnotherElk

How dangerous it is depends on your personal risk assessment in your very own mindset and circumstances.
User data should be inaccessible after simple loss or theft of the phone as long as you chose a PIN/password/pattern for your screen lock, which will automatically serve as the necessary PIN/password/pattern to decrypt user data. But who really knows? Software these days can’t guarantee anything other than that it will have bugs at least, if not conceptual shortcomings .
With an unlocked bootloader anything can be booted or installed by somebody getting physical access to your phone. So somebody snatching your phone unnoticed, installing malware to grab your unlock method or to do stuff with your data after you unlocked, then slipping the phone back to you still unnoticed just to wait for you to unlock it … is a possibility for you to either prevent or accept.