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These Are the Best Alternatives to Google’s Android Operating System (Wired) (www.wired.com)

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Interesting article from a generalist magazine. According to it:

Best Preinstalled Phone: Fairphone 6 With /e/OS
Best for Pixel Phones: GrapheneOS
Best for Non-Pixel Phones: /e/OS
For the DIY Tinkerer: LineageOS

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[–] djdarren@piefed.social 2 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

It is also slowed because there is very little fully open source phone hardware, today - and of what there is, very little of it is pocket sized.

What I don't understand is why, if Pixels can be unlocked and locked back up again - which is part of why Graphene only works on Pixels - why don't more alternative OSs target Pixels? Ubuntu Touch, for example, only supports the 3a. I have a 9 so I can run Graphene, but I'd love to be able to put some flavour of Linux on it.

[–] pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip 1 points 10 hours ago

if Pixels can be unlocked and locked back up again - which is part of why Graphene only works on Pixels - why don't more alternative OSs target Pixels?

I don't know, but my guess is it is just a resource challenge. Since Ubuntu isn't leveraging Android at the lowest level, they probably have to write hardware drivers for every supported phone.