Hacker News Reader

Comment by samasas | Hacker News Reader

I run /e/os (linageos fork kind of) on my Fairphone 3. It works pretty good. At least I got rid of the feeling that google os watching me. I have no google software on it. I try to use as much FOSS software from F-Droid.

https://e.foundation/

I use Aurora Store for those apps that are closed source and I need. (E.g. the swedish app Bank ID which handles auth and sign for logging into banks and authorities).

Hackerwise I would like to try out PinePhone but as I understand it, it is not really for daily use yet. But I like the kill switches and that it doesn't rely at all on android code base

View on HN

also got a fairphone 3 with /e/.

before i had /e/ on a onenote 5t.

the fairphone is a bit weaker than the onenote, and in particular wechat (which i need to use here) gets hit by the OOM killer frequently. (at least that is what i think is causing it to die)

/e/ is just great however. the most polished experience i ever had with an alternative phone OS. (having used sailfish, firefox OS, tizen, lineage...)

i think the OS is actually the more important selection criteria when it comes to privacy.

the fairphone is a nice device, and for how it is built, i think it is worth the price, but if you can't afford it then any other cheaper device with /e/ on it is a decent alternative that gives you just as much privacy.

I'm curious, what's the downside to e/OS or upside to not using it? I see that it's deGoogled. Is there some other concern?

i can't see any downside in /e/. you can even run specific google software if you want that. as far as i know everything works.

Yeah, they were talking about wanting pinephone since it doesn't use android at all. That's why I was wondering what the benefit would be.

The benefit of not relying at all on android code? Well, that would be not having to constantly adjust to what happens in the android code base. If google introduce proprietary code that the os depend on, one would have to create substitutions for that.

But with PinePhone and running e.g. postmarketos, then it's more pure linux and not have to relate to android and google's whims.

But I must say I AM happy with /e/os as a free degoogled android os. But it will still never be as good (or better) than "the real thing". At least that is my main concern

I have some Android apps, so I think e/os will be right up my alley when I finally do switch. Maybe I'll start to upload my apps on some of the 3rd party stores.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com