I recently bought a new phone, so my old phone, a Pixel 4 xl is now sitting around collecting dust. I thought it could be fun to install an actual non-Google Linux OS on it. Any suggestions?
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Well that’s just not true in my experience, I use GrapheneOS daily and my battery lasts longer than stock android and I haven’t really encountered any apps I haven’t been able to run under any circumstances. I’m a really big fan of the Google Sandboxing too, it allows me to run the real google-filled apps (like my bank) in a work profile. I admit that might not be lay-user friendly, but idk, it works for me
Stock typically comes with more preinstalled apps, does not scale, the comparison is also lacking since power users quickly can disable those background apps, that people often love to call bloatware. Again knowledge is everything as you can quickly tweaks aosp pretty easily and also get very solid OS.
You can also isolate apps with third-party apps that you even can get from F-Droid, island etc. there plenty… Once again you show knwoledge is key, not the OS.