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What are some good alternatives to android these days? (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by [M] to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
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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.

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[–] 3 points 3 months ago* (1 child)

CyanogenMod was for iPods and iPhone, and released in 2009, so if we round a smidge, 20 years.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago

    Didn't think I needed to specify "CyanogenMod for Android" since that was the topic at hand. Never mind that three years added to 17 years is a 17.6% increase - that's a bit more than "just a rounding error."

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