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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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[–] 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