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What are some good alternatives to android these days? (sh.itjust.works)

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Samsung has great hardware, but their version of android is getting more and more bloated. And android itself is moving in a direction reminiscent of how I felt about Windows after win7.

Some 20 years ago I used Cyanogenmod on a Samsung phone, and that worked great, but it seems to no longer be active.

I see many alternatives, such as graphene, lineage, et.al... what are the pros and cons of each? For one I see that GrapheneOS only supports the pixel.

Note: I'm not 100% ready to deegoogle entirely, so if possible I would like to keep some features related to Google Play and its services.

I'd love an actual linux phone again; I bought a Neo FreeRunner early 2008, and while the tech wasn't very mature at that point, it was my daily use phone for a while.

And no, I'm not buying a fucking iPhone. Made that mistake in 2009.

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[–] Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 15 points 2 days ago (1 children)

There's essentially Lineage (formerly Cyanogen, or a fork of it) and Graphene.

Ignore /e/ OS - it's Lineage with their crap on it.

Go read about those two.

[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca -1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Ignore /e/ OS - it’s Lineage with their crap on it.

It's actually quite a bit more than just that. But hey...if you want to be a hater, no one is going to stop you.

[–] sunrisepirate@piefed.social 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

What more is it than just that?

[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Advanced privacy app automatically blocks trackers and ads.
Let's you toggle your IP and your geolocation to hidden with two simple toggles..
App Lounge provides an exodus privacy report on apps; details the trackers and the permissions needed.
If you have a Murena.io email account, it automatically generates a random alias for you without having to download another app.
Much much much more granular MicroG settings allowing to to grant Google as much or as little as you want.

I'm not saying that these are all things that mainline lineage can't do. But you would most certainly be installing additional apps for it.

[–] yessikg@fedia.io 0 points 18 hours ago

App Lounge is underrated, it includes both F-droid and Play Store apps and you don't need an account to install the Play Store apps