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Money
Now I got that Pink Floyd song in my head
It’s 2025 already?
Shit, I overslept again.
I moved from samsung’s trash-filled bloat os to lineageos, and my only regret is not doing it sooner.
You mean recent Samsung devices are compatible?
The frustrating thing is all the information and materials to support Samsung devices is out there, but the custom ROM development community is so ridiculously toxic and unhelpful to newcomers that few people are willing and able to mainline new devices (and supporting a new device is complicated enough that you pretty much can’t get started without someone more experienced to point out the decades of cruft, pitfalls, and vendor-specific workarounds that the build processes have accumulated). More of the old guard leaves every year without enough new blood to replace them.
No clue, my phone is not exactly recent.
Welcome to the club. I’ve been a member since 2019 and am definitely not giving up my membership anytime in the near future.
Member cyanogenmod?
I wasn’t a member quite that far back, but I kept up with the scene enough to know that it had changed to lineage OS when that occurred.
I did, but back then it felt more like a novelty. I lost interest in messing with my phone since, but now I actually needed it.
I do wish they would switch to a non profit or sell a product.
I get why they don’t though
Use it Google free
I thought it is still 2024
You think the problem will go away this month?
Of course not! But it doesn’t go away even in 2026 and I wouldn’t write that in the article.
Because Google and Samsung are rich and powerful.
I just install LineageOS. It doesn’t have any bloatware or Android modifications that the manufacturer added
That’s great if you have one of the handful of phones supported, but for the rest of us, not so much.
I bought my current phone specifically because it was supported by LineageOS. Before that I used an unsupported Samsung phone, which was such a shitty experience that I made a promise to myself that my next phone has to have custom ROMs available
Apart from the pixels, which current range of phones is supported?
You can find the supported devices in the list - https://wiki.lineageos.org/devices/
And how many are current? Apart from the pixels, there’s nothing available where I live unless you buy second-hand (which has issues of its own).
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I don’t even pay any attention. I boot the phone for the very first time, go through the setup thing, and click no to as many things as possible, get into the home screen, open settings, open developer settings, turn on USB debugging, and turn the phone off and install lineage OS with no Google apps.
There’s bloatware?
continues on using GrapheneOS
Not only is there bloatware, a fuckton of things prevent you from installing a custom OS on many phones ranging from DRM built into the phone, to the carrier your service is provided by. My phone is compatible with Graphene and I want Graphene; but TMO won’t let me unlock my phone to install Graphene (even though it’s fully paid off). 😠
Worthless article. But the point is valid…
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I don’t miss Android lol
What do you use?
Take a wild guess lol
No way, is it Windows Phone? Based
Username checks out.
Semaphore flags
Linux?
GrapheneOS and iOS
GrapheneOS is Android
Id argue Android is GrapheneOS.
