jaggedrobotpubes@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
So is GrapheneOS pretty much the play here?
Nobody get all weird and hyper-niche, I want the easy FOSS one that the most people use, so I can find answers in forums for issues. The Linux Mint of phones.
Oh god…are we about to enter the era of 5000 different phone distros, that when it comes down to it are really all the same???
ZorinOS and Mint are basically the same thing. And really so are all the other debian distros.
There’s like 3 types of linux. Everything else is just an offshoot of an offshoot. Personally I think it’s severely damaged linux’s popularity. And slowed it’s advancements.
I hope thats not how phones go.
Unfortunately this is the beauty and the bane of choice and freedom: everyone has it’s own opinion of what is good and what is not, and can easily make it so, fragmenting the offer and confusing the newbie losing it to the less free alternative. Works in Linux, works in politics.
There is no way to have freedom of choice AND a united front against the alternative.
That’s the nice thing about standards, there are so many to choose from.
tabris@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I’ve been using graphene for over a year now, had used stock android since the HTC g1. Honest answer, graphene is stock without the annoyances, and finer grained security configuration. Major frustration is banking apps/no google pay, but since I switched banks (which I did because my old bank funds Israel) the new app works perfectly fine, so your milage may vary. Lack of google pay is inconvenient only if I leave my wallet at home, which is rare. Otherwise, it’s rare that something is broken just because it’s graphene, and if it is, the forums usually have the answer.