In this video, I discuss the experience of using a degoogled phone, both from the AOSP and Linux side of things. Relevant Links LineageOS: https://lineageos.org/ GrapheneOS: https://grapheneos.org/...

The experience of using a degoogled phone, both from the AOSP and Linux side of things.

I had to update to description since people kept thinking that I made the video.

  • Tore@piefed.worldEnglish
    72·
    2 days ago

    Why not mention Ubuntu or e/Os? I’ve used both on my Fairphone 3+.

    Used Ubuntu Touch for years and I’ve got e/OS installed right now.

    • Hxrmit@thelemmy.clubEnglish
      72·
      2 days ago

      Both are backed by corporations. E/OS also relies on hidden google services, it is also a more bloated lineageOS having worse security than EOL grapheneOS.

      • maam@feddit.ukEnglish
        1·
        12 hours ago

        Ubuntu Touch is ran by the UBports Foundation after Canonical gave up on it.

      • TotalSonic@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        1 day ago

        in the case of Ubuntu Touch this simply is not true. Canonical stopped maintaining the code for it in 2017, and since then it has been overseen by the non-profit foundation UBports, which has a few core developers that depend on contributions from a volunteer community as well. Yes, it uses an Ubuntu base and some of the Ubuntu repositories (as do many other Linux distros), and it has an agreement with Canonical to be able to use the name and logos for Ubuntu for no charge, but is otherwise completely independent of Canonical. https://ubports.com/ (posting this from a Poco X3 NFC running Ubuntu Touch 24.04.2)

        • Hxrmit@thelemmy.clubEnglish
          22·
          1 day ago

          Canonical, a UK-based software company mantains it though, the snap packages are also proprietary

          • Vittelius@feddit.orgEnglish
            3·
            1 day ago

            “They” maintain it in the same way that they “maintain” Linux Mint. Which is to say technically they operate the repository that the OS is built from. But that’s misleading as the main OS is built by the German foundation as an immutable OS. That means that the OS packages are tested by the foundation and you can’t install everything else from the repo. Additional software comes in the form of click packages, which as you might have noticed, isn’t snap. Snap support is very much in development at the moment, but only as an additional package manager. Snaps are also mostly open source. The client, the thing that runs on your hardware is free software. It’s the server that’s proprietary.

          • TotalSonic@lemmy.worldEnglish
            3·
            1 day ago

            Ubuntu Touch uses deb and its own fully open source package format called click - none of the system or system apps is installed as snap. It has support for installing snap packages though, although there are still some bugs in using these.