This. Android is a tinker toy OS that squats like a fat toad on top of the Linux kernel and slurps up your personal data while barring you from doing anything useful with it.
Android itself is fine, the problem is that you cannot modify it.
Non-Android Linux only sounds good in theory, in practice you’ll be doing phone calls from command line, and that’s not fun. Neither Ubuntu Phone nor Firefox mobile OS went anywhere, and Gnome right now has better touchscreen support than Ubuntu Phone ever had.
I don’t want a Linux GUI on my phone I want non-android Linux on my phone
so what do you want then? a linux gui is as close to non-android as it gets right now.
and its coming along very nicely.
I want no reliance on Google
isn’t that precisely what linux phones intend to be?
This. Android is a tinker toy OS that squats like a fat toad on top of the Linux kernel and slurps up your personal data while barring you from doing anything useful with it.
Android itself is fine, the problem is that you cannot modify it.
Non-Android Linux only sounds good in theory, in practice you’ll be doing phone calls from command line, and that’s not fun. Neither Ubuntu Phone nor Firefox mobile OS went anywhere, and Gnome right now has better touchscreen support than Ubuntu Phone ever had.
Ubuntu Touch is still a thing