Interested in hearing everyone’s experience using alternative phone OS’s. Have you ever used Lineage or Graphene, Pursim, pinephone? Was it good enough to replace your android/iphone?
I am using Lineage but not really sure if it qualifies, it is still an android. Overall, it is pretty good. The main issues I am getting is due to the fact that I didn’t install version with Google services, and I am using MicroG instead (open source implementation). Some applications don’t like it, and you have to do some trickery with rooting to have a chance to run them (for example our national identification application), but it is pretty rare.
I would recommend it if you want to still be able to use everything you need but want a bit more FOSS experience.
HarmonyOS I love the new Huawei OS and love that they made an open source version, OpenHarmony, me and my friend screw around with it on an old recycled google home with the big touch screen. But yeah, I love HarmonyOS, way prefer it to android os
I run Arch on a PinePhone Pro. It’s been working really well. Recent updates have improved it a lot. The phone now wakes itself up from sleep when it receives a call or SMS, calls and SMS have been very reliable, MMS messages now work, etc. I even have Android apps running on my PinePhone Pro using Waydroid, which is now hardware accelerated. I use it as a daily driver and it’s a very good daily driver.
The only major issue is that the drivers for the cameras haven’t been mainlined yet which means that even if you get a kernel that supports them, most camera apps won’t support them and the ones that do don’t have postprocessing yet, so the white balance is off and the quality is horrible. If you don’t need the cameras though, it works really well.
Here’s a screenshot of Waydroid running on my PinePhone Pro. I’m using an Android image with microG. The black bars on the top and bottom are part of Phosh, the desktop environment I’m using, then everything in the middle is Android running inside a Waydroid container.
I have a pinephone pro and an og pinephone. Neither have met my needs to replace my android phone(pixel 6).
Im hopeful in the next few years the ecosystem will mature, and it will be a viable platform.
yeah that’s my concern; that other phones don’t have the same usability as android or iphone
I run Graphenee and it is an awesome user experience - most of the conveniences of stock android with the peace of mind of privacy and security
graphene and lineage seem to be the most popular. Anything about it that doesn’t work, or missing functionality compared to android?
I use a 20+ y.o. Nokia I bought for 20Eu and works/looks like new I have no idea what the OS for nokia was back then, you know the one with a 9icon square menu :)
I have had an encyclopedic interest on pinephone … but I can’t yet justify the cost of one. I have 2-3 older Nokias still very functional but heavier as backups incase some decade this one refuses to boot again.
you use that as your daily driver? what is the experience like?