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google doing their best to make me move to a different platform for my next phone.
anybody know of other options?
Linux phones are about to get interesting.
I've heard that 15 years ago
Same with what we were hearing about the Linux desktop!
...yet here we are in 2026 and literally all my desktops have since become Linux, lol.
15 years ago the world wasn’t looking for a maliciously compliant escape route.
Unfortunately, I don't think most people are too interested even now. The masses that buy phones and make it profitable aren't aware of things like this or even give a shit. Any time I bring something up with friends and family it gets shrugged off. Realistically Linux phones are going to be fringe unless they can offer something up to the masses that is attractive to them.
Hope I'm wrong.
They were interesting 15 years ago, too.
Still think the Nokia N900 was the best phone of all time.
It feels that it is either Linux phones, or Fairphone, or GrapheneOS. We are somewhat fucked.
I don't think anything other than degoogled Android is mature enough to recommend. And it looks like degoogled androids might extinct soon.
What makes you say Degoogled Android might go extinct? Projects like LineageOS and GrapheneOS are still going strong. /e/OS, murenaOS, VollaOS and other similar phones have been coming out of the woodwork recently. I think DeGoogled Android is just getting started.
That is, unless, you mean Google is working hard to close down AOSP so the downstream DeGoogled projects don't function anymore? Then yeah, I sadly have to agree.
Google seems to start cracking down on free android, I don't really believe they want to just stop the ability to install apps on your regular android and be done with it. Once they get the taste for blood, they can't stop
I've preordered my jolla phone a few weeks ago. It will arrive around september. Let's hope it don't suck 😉