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what foss phone OS do you use and why? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I was thinking about using graphene OS, but I've read some lemmy users dislike this OS due to perceived misleading advertising and the pixel 7a you're supposed to install graphene on because it's from google (an advertising company).

Another option would be lineage OS, but there is so much false information about this OS, namely compatible phones that simply don't work with this OS and no support.

what works for you? I want a phone with no google, that doesn't force me to use the manufacturer's ecosystem and that won't show the apps I don't want or need (on an asus I own you cannot neither get rid nor hide bloatware)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (3 children)

dislike this OS due to perceived misleading advertising

It's a non-profit, there is no advertising.

and the pixel 7a you're supposed to install graphene on because it's from google (an advertising company).

Yeah I dunno what that's supposed to mean. You can't install it on an iPhone or most other Android devices because they all have locked bootloader's (among other reasons). They only develop for Pixel because it streamlines the development process, along with having the highest level of security in the SoC.

Another option would be lineage OS

Lineage is a great project, and fairly private, but as the name implies, it's intended for older phones to increase their life. Not necessarily to be private.

what works for you?

Graphene

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Lineage OS is a base system that you can use to get the AOSP experience with modern apps. It is most certainly not for just for older phones. It also is going to be updated more frequently than anything else.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It is most certainly not for just for older phones

No one said it was.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

but as the name implies, it's intended for older phones to increase their life

From above

[–] [email protected] -4 points 5 months ago

Yes I'm fully aware of the comment that I wrote some hours ago. Read it again. More carefully this time.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago

The name "lineage" is because it's a "descendant" of cyanogenmod, not because it's intended for older phones

[–] [email protected] -1 points 5 months ago

My thoughts exactly seeing this post. Haven't heard that particular rhetoric here before. Typing this from my Pixel 7a running GrapheneOS