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Should you DeGoogle your smartphone? (peertube.wtf)
submitted 4 months ago by to c/linuxphones@lemmy.ca
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The experience of using a degoogled phone, both from the AOSP and Linux side of things.

I had to update to description since people kept thinking that I made the video.

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[–] 6 points 4 months ago (6 children)

Why not mention Ubuntu or e/Os? I've used both on my Fairphone 3+.

Used Ubuntu Touch for years and I've got e/OS installed right now.

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago (5 children)

    Both are backed by corporations. E/OS also relies on hidden google services, it is also a more bloated lineageOS having worse security than EOL grapheneOS.

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  • [–] -1 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Canonical, a UK-based software company mantains it though, the snap packages are also proprietary

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  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago

    Ubuntu Touch uses deb and its own fully open source package format called click - none of the system or system apps is installed as snap. It has support for installing snap packages though, although there are still some bugs in using these.

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  • [–] 7 points 4 months ago

    in the case of Ubuntu Touch this simply is not true. Canonical stopped maintaining the code for it in 2017, and since then it has been overseen by the non-profit foundation UBports, which has a few core developers that depend on contributions from a volunteer community as well. Yes, it uses an Ubuntu base and some of the Ubuntu repositories (as do many other Linux distros), and it has an agreement with Canonical to be able to use the name and logos for Ubuntu for no charge, but is otherwise completely independent of Canonical. https://ubports.com/ (posting this from a Poco X3 NFC running Ubuntu Touch 24.04.2)

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