Couple years back decided to go with an iPhone instead of an android for my upgrade. Quickly found out Android is the superior OS in almost every way - and that Apple really does just rely on being a status symbol and its brand appeal.

It’s the most stripped down restrictive phone I’ve ever used, It looks very slick all over, but that’s about the best I can say about it.

Will never get the appeal these things have, and people should be smarter than this bullshit

  • grym [she/her, comrade/them]
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    3 years ago

    What i recommend to people here if they can. if you're on android, a good (and not too complicated) option you can look into is LineageOS.

    On the website you can check if your brand/type of phone has a compatible version and an active maintainer.

    The process isn't too complicated, although you do need a bit of tech knowledge or when installing the new OS you could have issues and if you REALLY fuck it up potentially brick your phone (although i'm not sure that's really possible now, normally you can do a special reboot). So if you know how to use a console/terminal or you have a friend that can help out, it's very easy to do.

    It's basically android, but de-google-ified. No google app store (you can install it as well if you want but to me that kinda defeats the point), all libre alternatives to the google apps. F-Droid is a good replacement of the app store and has all the basic stuff you need as well as a bunch of open-source/libre apps or the privacy oriented stuff. You can also copy over the .apk files you've downloaded somewhere else (I use Raccoon to download .apk files from the google app store on my PC and copy them over) and install them on LineageOS as normal. However some apps require the google app store, or are more complicated than a simple .apk, those probably won't work and you'd need to install the google app store.

    Since it's not google, it's a very up-to-date android, you have total control over the default apps (normally there's a lot of google stuff you can't remove, or even brand apps), and better privacy controls.

    Until we get proper stable linux phones (it's getting there!), that's the best option I've found.