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These Are the Best Alternatives to Google’s Android Operating System (Wired) (www.wired.com)
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Interesting article from a generalist magazine. According to it:

  • Best Preinstalled Phone: Fairphone 6 With /e/OS
  • Best for Pixel Phones: GrapheneOS
  • Best for Non-Pixel Phones: /e/OS
  • For the DIY Tinkerer: LineageOS
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[–] Mynameisallen@lemmy.zip 30 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Honestly Graphene is the only one that I'd trust unless you're not going to add any Google play services at all with Lineage, and I'm including micro G on that too.

Sailfish OS is beautiful and really nice, decent app support, but kind of a pain in the USA, postmarketos shows strong promise, but doesn't have VOLTE support yet which makes it a dealbreaker for me personally. I know a lot of folks love UBports, it never really was something I enjoyed. I'm really hoping to use Sailfish in the USA someday

[–] wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Postmarket and Mobian sure do have VoLTE on certain phones. OnePlus 6 for example. The trick is it needs to be abled first before you wipe Android. But I remember someone posting a workaround recently.

[–] Mynameisallen@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Do you have a link? I have a small army of OnePlus 6Ts literally just for playing with Linux OS on them. I'd love to try this workaround, if you don't have the link readily available no sweat I'll look about

P.s. new to my knowledge fedora is running on the 6T albeit very slowly compared to postmarket and mobian

https://liliputing.com/fedora-pocketblue-remix-is-an-atomic-linux-distro-for-mobile-devices-phones-and-tablets/

[–] non_burglar@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Sailfish OS is beautiful and really nice, decent app support

Have you actually used sailfishos? It isn't much better than using an Ubuntu touch device:

  • app support is still pretty weak
  • no volte
  • big, big problems still with using MMS
  • SMS problems (still) while data is on
  • networking stack is very buggy for android apps (WhatsApp calls are unusable)
  • no 5g
  • no nfc

If you had a different experience, I'd love to know how you achieved it.

[–] Mynameisallen@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 day ago

I have not gotten it to work for calls but I'm prejudiced, I loved Maemo and Meego and have really only poked around the OS without a SIM connected because I couldn't use it for calls in the US