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Android 12 is where they started making everything worse with the quick action and settings redesign, and it's been going downhill since.

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[–] hexagonwin@lemmy.sdf.org 14 points 1 day ago (3 children)

android 11 is more like win10, it has lots of built in bs that can mostly be mitigated. i'd say win7 = android 7~8, and 4.1~4.4 for xp..

i'm still rocking android 11, never upgrading.. hopefully i can switch to a linux phone before this gets unusable

[–] lemmyng@piefed.ca 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Agreed. 4.4 was the pinnacle of user-configurable Android. after that they started removing features and locking things down.

[–] hexagonwin@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

tbh JB 4.1~4.3 was the best. Had real performance improvements over ICS (project butter), KK had some weird stuff like the new sdcard policy.

wish i can still use it, but even firefox ditched support so..

[–] lemmyng@piefed.ca 5 points 23 hours ago

Not disagreeing on that, my comment was more about configuration options. After 4.4 they started removing so much QoL stuff under the excuse of simplicity: the indicator LED, several volume controls, the headphone jack, made gesture controls default, etc.

Quite possibly. I don't think I have anything running below A11 that still functions so that's been my baseline. Most recent was my OP3 that had LineageOS's A9 but the battery finally gave up the ghost a few months ago.

[–] fort_burp@feddit.nl 1 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

android 11

Is this "insecure" or something? Like why are we at android 16 and is it mandatory?

[–] hexagonwin@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 2 hours ago

I mean you can say it's "insecure" since Google stopped providing security patches. I don't really care much tho, I don't keep confidential stuff on my phone, I'm not that much of a valuable target and I'll be pwned anyway if I get targeted due to bad opsec. I'd say my phone running Android 11 with root and everything is much more "private" than most normal Android 16 phones since I have stuff like AdAway and AfWall. Android 11 still works for most apps, I've never seen anything not supported.