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I like the fact it de-google’s the device and strips the preinstalled BS; but It says it doesn’t even come with the Play Store. How would I get my normal apps?
Fair warning, you do lose access to some offline AI features like improved voice dictation and song recognition as well as Google Pay. I’m okay with the tradeoff personally but it is still a downside.
What if I install Lineage to it? That’s what I intend to do when my Pixel 8 gets here.
Give Grapheneos a try!
I like the fact it de-google’s the device and strips the preinstalled BS; but It says it doesn’t even come with the Play Store. How would I get my normal apps?
It doesn’t include the Playstore per se, but it does provide an installer for a sandboxed Playstore.
You can get Aurora store from fdroid which lets you download apps without having a google account.
It has the playstore, even has android auto now.
Fair warning, you do lose access to some offline AI features like improved voice dictation and song recognition as well as Google Pay. I’m okay with the tradeoff personally but it is still a downside.
Seconding the GrapheneOS recommendation. This is the privacy respecting route to take.
what advantage are there to lineage? i used to use dirty unicorn.
It lets you remove the pre installed crap and was faster and used less power to save on battery life when I used it before.