Will LineageOS, Graphene and /e/OS be affected by Google’s changes to prevent sideloading? Is UbuntuTouch or Sailfish OS promising in the long term?
I understand that right now we are in a bad place, but in your opinion, what OS do you think people who care about freedom should rally around?
I have a Pixel 9 running GrapheneOS, so I’ve been interested in something non-Android. Postmarket seemed like the obvious choice, but it doesn’t officially support any Google phone since the Pixel 3.
I don’t much of anything about these things, but it’s kinda weird that GrapheneOS can leverage Pixel drivers and such, but no non-Android OSs can.
That’s because the Linux kernel in Android is very different from the normal Linux kernel. And device manufacturers often only make drivere available for specific Android kernels that are incompatible with normal Linux.
Hallium (I think it’s called) makes it possible to use an Android kernel and drivers with normal Linux but that probably comes with its own set of problems. One being that you miss out on newer security patches and features of normal Linux.
It’s a mess.