So is GrapheneOS pretty much the play here?
Nobody get all weird and hyper-niche, I want the easy FOSS one that the most people use, so I can find answers in forums for issues. The Linux Mint of phones.
Oh god…are we about to enter the era of 5000 different phone distros, that when it comes down to it are really all the same???
ZorinOS and Mint are basically the same thing. And really so are all the other debian distros.
There’s like 3 types of linux. Everything else is just an offshoot of an offshoot. Personally I think it’s severely damaged linux’s popularity. And slowed it’s advancements.
I hope thats not how phones go.
Unfortunately this is the beauty and the bane of choice and freedom: everyone has it’s own opinion of what is good and what is not, and can easily make it so, fragmenting the offer and confusing the newbie losing it to the less free alternative. Works in Linux, works in politics.
There is no way to have freedom of choice AND a united front against the alternative.
Google fucking their own market. I will use a half working Linux phone before I submit to this. Something’s gotta change with these fascist US corpos owning everything.
The phone that you bought with your money, likely made by a third party, and sold by another party.
None of them are google.
Just switch to GrapheneOS or Linux at this point.
Sadly GrapheneOS only supports pixel phones and I refuse to give more money to Google.
Motorola is making a graphene os phone soon I think
Buy a used pixel 2nd hand.
Buy a used one, that’s what I did. Google didn’t make a dime off of me.
How do I reliably tell an unlockable bootloader from just a carrier unlocked device that may still have a carrier firmware that prevents bootloader unlocking?
Swappa.com buy used.
I wish there were more phones that could run Linux.
Buying a Pixel is just giving Google more money. Flip phone here I come.
Buy last years model second hand
Probably gonna go with this
Fair enough. Cheap and cheerful.
Serious question : I wanted to start setting up phones as home/local servers using termux and second hand phones. Can I still achieve that after september?
Termux is on the Play Store so if you are logged in to each phone with your Google account, you shouldn’t have a problem. I think…
I mean yes… but I was thinking of removing the os as well? eh whatever, you’re right.
If you want to degoogle graphineos sounds good.
