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.

    • MajorHavoc@programming.dev
      3·
      6 hours ago

      Nothing is perfect.

      But every alternate Android ROM I have tried has given me a dramatic speed boost over what shipped with the phone.

      I guess there are other definitions of “good”, haha.

      For me good==fast, and GrapheneOS is the most responsive phone OS I have used, and therefore the best.

      • Alk@sh.itjust.works
        2·
        5 hours ago

        Ah yeah I wasn’t considering graphene OS an android alternative when I made that answer because it’s made with android. Graphene is fantastic, all things considered.