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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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[–] lgsp@feddit.it 1 points 2 days ago

Forks are not directly impacted:

https://consumerrights.wiki/w/Android_Developer_Verification#Affected_devices

But alternative repos, like f-droid, may have challenges because of some sort of mutual exclusion of developer space, but honestly I didn't fully get this part

https://f-droid.org/en/2025/09/29/google-developer-registration-decree.html