I wanted to degoogle since Google has been most annoying so far with S21FE. Was thinking of getting Pixel 8a but due to mixed reivews I was looking for other phones. Thoughts on this? Would be also nice if I can get some opinions from people who have the phone as well.

  • jinwk00@lemm.eeOPEnglish
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    7 months ago

    Aw shucks, the porter moved on from Lineage to develop more on e/os

    Any alternative custom ROMs that are generally considered complete Google-free other than those 2?

    • GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.ml
      3·
      7 months ago

      Idk about completely Google-free ones. Most of vanilla ROMs (such as crDroid, ArrowOS, CherishOS etc) do have some pre-included fixes for Google apps because most of the users flash them and I think they use the proprietary version of Monet theming (there are 2 versions of it). Usually LineageOS is what you go for if you want a completely vanilla ROM. I heard they’re considering adding some fixes for Gapps too but I don’t think it’s going to be anything bad or proprietary

      • jinwk00@lemm.eeOPEnglish
        1·
        7 months ago

        Should I be concerned if I am not going to be installing Google Apps (or gapps) or microG?

        • GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.ml
          2·
          7 months ago

          Depends on the exact ROM (I think they’re only really tested with Gapps) but usually you should be fine. It might be relatively easy to identify a user of ROMs like this because of mismatching device fingerprints (done to unlock Pixel features such as unlimited Google Photos storage and high FPS limit in games) though

    • lemmyreader@lemmy.mlEnglish
      2·
      7 months ago

      Have other comments made you dislike /e/OS ? microG, which /e/OS uses is not using Google but a replacement for the Google Play framework if you would for example need location feature for some of your apps.