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Yeah… I went Apple to get away from Google, but now I’m looking at de-googled android options
Pretty shit all around. Almost like millions of wealthy and powerful people don’t want anybody to have private and secure phones.
the Fairphone 4 is supposed to work well without google, open camera even has access to the wide angle camera.
LineageOS, /e/OS, and ubuntu mobile seem to be popular options.
but of course everything google won't work. that means almost all playstore apps as well. what a lame dystopia this is.
You can still get play store apps, if you must, on a de-googled phone using Aurora Store. You can bypass the safetynet attestation as well with some methods (used by things like banking apps). I've been using a google-free phone for a month now and after switching I reinstalled the apps I used the most (mostly through F-Droid), and then I created a separate profile solely for installing apps from Google Play (still through Aurora Store). It works well for me, I haven't had a single issue. Maybe because I really only get 3-4 apps from Google Play, the rest is F-Droid.
that's awesome to hear, my library of play store apps is still quite large and includes a number of games, which likely rely on google services.
once it becomes possible without missing out on much, i'll switch for sure. i will do the same with linux btw.
for now, i'll have to wait for the EU to pass more privacy laws.
I understand the Android/Google Services part, but you wouldn't be losing much if anything with a just-works Linux distro. I switched to Linux from Windows way before de-googling. Before switching it seems like it'll be a very hard thing to do. Getting replacements for your Windows programs to run on Linux (you can run Windows programs on Linux with Wine by the way, I even got a Microsoft game running), get used to the whole operating system etc. But it hasn't been bad for me. I really really recommend just downloading Linux Mint (just a recommendation for coming from Windows. You can get any other just works distro. I started with Debian), putting it on a USB and just testing it out in the live environment. Then if you have a spare hard disk or ssd, you can dualboot it with Windows. That's how I got into it, I deleted Windows after a few months and used the now free hard disk as an encrypted volume. I haven't missed Windows at all, and I still do not. I'm glad that I'm not using some closed-source, data collector corporation owned software for my operating system, I hope you have success in this area.!
Same.
Even for gaming, switching all my desktops to Linux was a breeze.
It’s mobile im struggling with
i do already dual boot mint cinnamon edition on my computer, whenever i'm curious i'll try to run a certain application. and most of the time it'll work just fine.
i have problems with gaming, mostly. there was a time where fusion360 didn't work vecause it required edge for login, but i believe it's been patched.
i use a Trustmaster T300, a stream deck (which is "compatible"), and play some online games with anticheat. i get that there's a runtime for battleye and easy anti-cheat alteady, but it's (to my knowledge) impossible to play fortnite.
if i ever bought a laptop, i would install linux no problem. but my use case is in the very early stages of even being possible. believe me, i WANT to use linux. i just don't want to create too much work passing through usb devices to a VM or rebooting just to play beam.ng.
Yeah, I think you can't play online games with kernel-level anticheat on your PC.. I remember trying to get valorant to work before I realized that :\ I guess it was easier for me as i didn't use to play many multiplayer games other than valorant anyway.. So, I guess we just have to wait for developers to support Linux.
Might be a good opportunity to drop some toxic games at the same time
Have you heard of our lord and savior, Factorio?
For ads, mostly. The vew i tried, one didn't let you select start because of a bug with a missing ad frame (imagine!). The 4 or 5 others ran fine. Might look different with the 90% of games who want to rip ypu off. Payment ingame might rely on Google Services too.
I switched from MIUI (xiaomi android) to LineageOS a month ago now and my experience has only been better. There's no google, it's way less bloated compared to MIUI or any stock android so I think it's actually faster. Though I must say that while it increases your privacy, it decreases the security of your phone because of having an unlocked bootloader but that's mostly a concern for a threat having physical access to your device, and that's something I've accepted. If you have or get a pixel phone then you can install GrapheneOS which is also very much secure while being google-free and high-privacy. I can't buy a pixel so I'm with LineageOS right now. I highly recommend it, compared to Apple.