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.

  • neidu3@sh.itjust.worksOPMEnglish
    2·
    6 hours ago

    I’m currently leaning towards graphene, as my current phone will have to be replaced at some point. Even if I’m not ready to 100% degoogle, I am taking steps to avoid things that require Big Corpo Mobile OS. For example, any Norwegian knows about BankID… it’s basically a very convenient 2fa app for anything that requires a personal login such as bank, taxes, Healthcare, etc. While the app itself is pretty good, they have effectively tied themselves to apple and Google, and it probably won’t work on any of the alternatives.

    This June I’m going back to the OTP Keychain dongle that I used a decade ago.

    It’s obvious that banks want to move users away from it for practicalreasons, but they do concede that not everyone can rely on an app on a smartphone, so my excuse of “I work on ships and don’t always have wifi or cell coverage available” was good enough.