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These Are the Best Alternatives to Google’s Android Operating System (Wired)

https://feddit.it/post/27083118

These Are the Best Alternatives to Google’s Android Operating System (Wired) - Feddit.it

Interesting article from a generalist magazine. According to it: - Best Preinstalled Phone: Fairphone 6 With /e/OS - Best for Pixel Phones: GrapheneOS - Best for Non-Pixel Phones: /e/OS - For the DIY Tinkerer: LineageOS

Show threadMynameisAllenFeb 24

Hopefully Graphene is the only one that I’d trust unless you’re not going to add any Google play services at all with Lineage, and I’m including micro G on that too.

Sailfish OS is beautiful and really nice, decent app support, but kind of a pain in the USA, postmarketos shows strong promise, but doesn’t have VOLTE support yet which makes it a dealbreaker for me personally. I know a lot of folks love UBports, it never really was something I enjoyed. I’m really hoping to use Sailfish in the USA someday

Show threadnon_burglarFeb 25

Sailfish OS is beautiful and really nice, decent app support

Have you actually used sailfishos? It isn’t much better than using an Ubuntu touch device:

  • app support is still pretty weak
  • no volte
  • big, big problems still with using MMS
  • SMS problems (still) while data is on
  • networking stack is very buggy for android apps (WhatsApp calls are unusable)
  • no 5g
  • no nfc

If you had a different experience, I’d love to know how you achieved it.

Show threadMynameisAllen
I have not gotten it to work for calls but I’m prejudiced, I loved Maemo and Meego and have really only poked around the OS without a SIM connected because I couldn’t use it for calls in the US
Feb 25 at 12:37amWeb