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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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[–] 6 points 3 months ago* (1 child)

Nothing is perfect.

But every alternate Android ROM I have tried has given me a dramatic speed boost over what shipped with the phone.

I guess there are other definitions of "good", haha.

For me good==fast, and GrapheneOS is the most responsive phone OS I have used, and therefore the best.

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