With all the talk of changing systems, and seeing the Hell that is on the horizon, I'd like to know about what smartphone operating systems are available. At the moment, I have an Android phone, but I don't see things continuing along any further than they are.
Alternative SmartPhone OSes
Carson James
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Noah Lewis
Is it so hard to open up a search engine and enter the query "mobile OSs" or something more specific? Anyways try Lineage
Thomas Jackson
All the results from articles as far back as 5 years ago list the same 4-6 Linux forks. Is there anything that isn't going to be borked by the upcoming lawsuit?
Asher Morgan
Alternative Smartphone OS' will never be a thing because ARM Smartphones never actually became an Industry Standard Architecture like the IBM PC Wintel machines did. ARM has no platform standards, no hardware interface standards, no BIOS interface standards, none of that. You can boot alternative OS' on Intel Atom devices generally but even on those AHCI is broken on kernels/OS' other than what was shipped with the device so most of the time not even the backlight will work let alone wifi. Smartphones are not for fiddling around with this kind of shit. That's what PCs are made for. It's a waste of time doing it for a fucking smartphone for anything other than hacker cred and e-peen. Android by default already gives you all the interfaces for customization you generally will want granted that you have it rooted. If you want to remove the bawt net then you wouldn't be using a Smartphone to begin with.
Isaac Ward
You glow too much
Parker Young
He's not wrong.
James Carter
If your concern is privacy, LineageOS is a decent choice: it is Android cleansed of Google's data collecting.
Xavier Brooks
No its not, where does this retarded notion come from? Its not even close to the truth. LineageOS' aim is not privacy, it's aim is to provide a bloatware-free rom that's stable and has the latest security updates. The only reason they don't include Gapps by default is because Google forced them not to for licensing reasons. The OS still relies on all the original OEM driver blobs including RIL. It's a great ROM for stability, security, and in terms of overall user experience and responsiveness vs stock, but please do not spread disinformation.
Liam Collins
lol, Lineage even ships with Google Chrome as browser by default.
I think user meant Replicant
David Moore
As said, lack of standards makes the task almost impossible.
Consider this, modern smartphones do not have a standardized boot sequence nor a standardized device discovery sequence, even when they run the same Os and are made by the same company.
James Rogers
Use the microG fork of Lineage. Significantly less botnet
Henry Nguyen
It's true. Cellphones are botnet by definition, transmitting your location with higher accuracy with every new network standard.
Smartphones are a double edged sword, on the one hand there‘s an immense amount of sensors and usage data being collected, but unlike with feature phones at least encrypted communication is possible.
Angel Smith
Wait!
If I'm understanding this correctly, then smartphones are the most "secure and private" any generation of cellular phone produced to date, and the only reason why they are the least private means of communication is due to companies wanting that botnet money and/or the lack of a standardized model of development?
That makes it seem like Steve Jobs wasn't a sell out.
Brandon Flores
I miss Steve Jobs
Hudson Cooper
There's MeeGo and SailfishOS, both not based on Android.
Brandon Hill
MeeGo is discontinued and Sailfish OS is more or less dead (The only devices that shipped with it are the phone from 2013, over 5 years ago, and their tablet, which as been officially discontinued).
Ian Parker
Reminder that Ubuntu Touch is officially undead and that Plasma Mobile is still being developed.
Noah Allen
PureOS ftw
Landon Long
Smartphones are botnet. No way around it.
No matter what user facing OS you run on top you still have zero control over the baseband OS.
Ethan Rivera
SailfishOS has been ported to numerous devices and is still in development.
Ryan Rodriguez
Do the RMS way and bring your thinkpad with you wherever. It's what I do, and I'm pretty cool even by my own standards.
James Diaz
Proofs? Both their flagship devices are discontinued IIRC
Benjamin Rivera
Nicholas Diaz
Oh I see, it's just another sad porting effort where developers try desperately to fight ARMs lack of any kind of platform standards and is required to tailor make builds for each third party device.
Brody Thompson
Yeah :^)