• crt0o@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Just wondering, why wouldn’t you want to run Android? AOSP is fully open source, google free, and runs on linux anyways, these other OSs are just bound to be buggier…

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      1 year ago

      As far as I know, AOSP is largely maintained by Google. Without the Google Play Services you lose key functionalities such as notification service or the ability to use home banking apps.

      While alternative play services such as microG exist, in my personal experience they are buggy as hell. My banking apps continued not to work and notifications were often delayed by several hours.

      I’d love a real opensource linux alternative driven by the community without a big tech dictating what goes in or not. We’re not there yet but it’s cool to see people trying.

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      1 year ago

      AOSP is a huge set of unknown. Despite it’s Linux, it’s not like my Arch where I can contribute to the OS. There are arbitrary security measures against the user protecting the device maker, not the user. Where’s my sudo command, where’s my terminal?

    • Something Burger 🍔
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      1 year ago

      Android is fucking garbage, I’d rather use Windows. Unfortunately, other mobile OSes are somehow even worse.