Mastodawn

Since I’ve had a degoogled phone, I’ve been happy to share my experiences with those who are also looking for a solution. I’ve summarized my experience in this post.

You’ll find out what options I considered and tried, as well as what inconveniences are worth keeping in mind. I also provide an example of how to collect what’s important for you when choosing a device for degoogling.

🌐 https://blog.gridranger.dev/mobile-oses-featuring-fairphone-5/

#degoogle #blog #post #indieweb #android #mobileos #ubuntutouch #sailfishos #iodéOS #eos #postmarketos #fairphone

Mobile OSes (featuring Fairphone 5) - Gridranger

PocketVJ aka magdesign 22h ago

@david_bardos
i just went through your summary, thanks🙏
i made similar experience. was happily running ubports on a nexus for several years, the best phone i had until i lost it.
then run pmos/sxmo on a #op6 for quite a while daily, praying when doing an update and spending months writing your own apps is a fulltime job, i still love it, but dont beleive anymore that it will make it to a phone state. /e/os is a joke, honestly. sailfishOS, for my tast too colorfull and too far off a linux system

Dávid Bárdos 22h ago

@pocketvj Thanks for sharing! 😊 I hope more and more people will degoogle over time. Perhaps, with more people interested, new projects will flourish or the existing ones will receive a significant boost!
Creating your own apps is surely hard work, but it sounds awesome!

@david_bardos great read, thanks for sharing! Have fun with trying out postmarketOS :)

Been daily-driving it on FP5 for half a year and am really looking forward to call support (once it's merge-able).

𝔸𝕟𝕔𝕚𝕖𝕟𝕥 𝕊𝕠𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕤 🔉20h ago

@david_bardos
It's unfortunate that the main camera didn't work for you on the Fairphone, but in #UbuntuTouch the cameras work extremely well on several devices, so your article could be revised to be more nuanced than just saying that the camera won't work on a de-Googled phone. Here are two photos that show otherwise: one close-up, the other distant, both on a OnePlus 6T

Dávid Bárdos 19h ago

@ancientsounds Thanks, that's great! I updated the post. It will be refreshed on my site as soon as pipeline runner will be unclogged. 😅

𝔸𝕟𝕔𝕚𝕖𝕟𝕥 𝕊𝕠𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕤 🔉19h ago

@david_bardos
Many thanks! I hesitate to express criticism of posts bcs ... well, this is Fedi and everyone can have their opinion. Respect to you

Hops the sausage dog 20h ago

@david_bardos thank you, this is just what I'm looking for! Great website design too.

Georg Weissenbacher 18h ago

@david_bardos I agree with most limitations, but the fingerprint sensor actually works perfectly fine on #UbuntuTouch 24.04 on my #Fairphone5, and the new Qt6-based version of Morph is a significant improvement. But as all the OSes in your list (except postmarketOS), it is dependent on the Android drivers and kernel (via Halium), which at this point is quite outdated. I really enjoy Ubuntu Touch (in fact, I am writing this on UT in the uMastonauts App), but as a daily driver, GrapheneOS is probably a better choice.

Dávid Bárdos 9h ago

@GeorgWeissenbacher Thanks, I updated the article with these info. :)

@david_bardos GrapheneOS is niot based on lineageOS

Dávid Bárdos 5h ago

@Kurt Thanks for your comment. 👍 Perhaps you're referring to where I wrote, “Most de-Googled variants are forked from LineageOS.” I deliberately wrote “most,” not “all.”

@david_bardos if i read "most" followed by "example", i think the example refers to most. But I'm not a native speaker

Adam Millerchip 1h ago

@Kurt @david_bardos I also read it as examples of LineageOS forks.

@david_bardos Hello Dávid, thank you very much for sharing your trip to #ungafam #ungoogle
Your blog makes it very clear.
I 100% agree with you when you say we don't escape google by using their stuff. So 1° for me, no google pixel and no android at all
2° LINUX is very reliable.
3° if I didn't have 2 ooooold Samsung Galaxy phones (one A6 and one a10), I would choose the fairphone, for the same good reasons you gave.
4° I will try hard anything I can do with these phones, before deciding to 1/2

@david_bardos ... buy a fairphone.

Thanks again, very helpful
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