Comment by estimator7292
8 hours ago
I mean, we have mandatory Play Store services, so the experience on android is not significantly less locked-in.
8 hours ago
I mean, we have mandatory Play Store services, so the experience on android is not significantly less locked-in.
LineageOS without gapps (no microg even) works fine. Very few apps require play services. I think everything from F-Droid works.
Yes, Lineage and Graphene are far more usable than people without first hand experience imagine. The vast majority of Android apps just work. Some may display a warning when first launched about custom ROMs being "unsupported" (like Whatsapp), but then just work as expected. A few users also report broken notifications (those that use Google's library to implement them), but it's a minor inconvenience, at least for someone like me who dislikes notifications.
And there are many great apps available on these free Android devices that are simply not available on "official" builds such as NewPipe, because Google obviously doesn't want you to block ads on Youtube.
> LineageOS
This frog is being boiled
The market for that is extremely niche and Google is going to make that less and less practical as it closes off AOSP source availability