Focusing not just on thinkering but on usability as well
I looked at this recently, and it really doesn’t look like any of them work as a daily driver. I ended up going with GrapheneOS in the end.
Jolla gives the best out of box experience.
If you can, wait for the new jolla phone
Having used one, I can guarantee that Jolla is the best in terms of maturity, UI, Android compatibility and many other fronts
Hard to say without more context. I’d check the existing distributions and pick one that suits you. Their websites usually have lists with compatible devices.
PostmarketOS is interesting for tinkering, grapheneOS just works reliably. Everything else in between
PostmarkedOS is a bit frustrating as it makes you jumping through many hoops if you want to install anything not 100% FoSS (due to alpine base)
I personally think arch and mobian are the best options right now, using the phosh UI (I like gnome-mobile as well, but it is not as mobile friendly as phosh)
Now to the hardware part, you have basically two options:
- Use a phone where most drivers are in the mainline kernel, but with bad performance due to weak SoC (e.g. pine phone pro)
- Use a phone with strong(er) SoC but relay on custom kernel from the phone brand, locking you in place of the version of the kernel they modified (e.g. oneplus 6, I think)
At least this is how I remember it
When we come to App support; you mostly have to rely on webApps for proprietary services like train ticket, uber, etc.
For massages, I would recommend a Matrix server and the various bridges to third party messaging services that exist for it (be aware that some services consider a connection via bridge as incompatible with their ToS and may block you)
Probably Jolla is the closest thing to daily drivable. Maybe Pine64 if your in the Americas.
have a look at the de-googled android roms too (like crdroid and lineage os), would guarantee for a much wider selection of devices. unless you have a use case which mandates linux.
OnePlus 6T probably, though phone calls arent properly working, at least on postmarketOS. Just get a Pixel and install GrapheneOS on it.
gOS is not the same. It will have the limitations of sideloading coming too. Functionality is not all there and pixels fund the oppressors.
Afaik the sideloding crackdown is tied to Google-certified ROMs, so Graphene won’t be affected, since Google-certified means that the OS has to ship GMS plus all the bullshit from Google.
Does the AOSP not affect graphene
AOSP != Google-certified Android.
I thought google maintained it?
with which distro are not working? With every distro? :O Phone calls are pretty basic stuff I need honestly, I don’t want to use android either, even if it’s graphene or lineage
