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LinageOS is sadly available only on the most popular devices.

To be fair, that almost certainly include Apple devices if installing 3rd party OS's would supported. Especially as the Asahi Linux project for macs has already done a lot of the hard work.

I currently have a Galaxy S5 running Android 13 in front of me and it's as snappy as a modern device just bought from the store.

The camera is of course the biggest drawback but apart from that, everything is fine.

Did you say this to support parents argument?

The Galaxy S5 was one of the most popular phones and I especially bought it some years ago, because LineageOS support was supposed to be good. And it did run kind of ok, but certainly not "as snappy as a modern device just bought from the store".

The S5 is certainly not a popular phone in 2023 anymore, it's close to 10 years old.

And no, it does run as snappy as a modern device with the latest Android flashed to it, I can make a video if you don't believe me. Ironically it's even faster now in Android 13 than it ever was during its prime era.

We are talking about old devices, and you brought up a former flagship from the biggest android manufacturer.

You definitely would have much less luck with a random huawei.

Sure, it's a former flagship but it's also an old device at almost a decade old

I have one lying around with LineageOS. It is not snappy by any metric, that I would use. Otherwise it would be still in use.

https://youtube.com/shorts/zroP_xg7Bg4?feature=share

You can have a look here on how it looks like for me, I do consider it snappy

You mean because the native UI opens quickly, it is a snappy devide?

How does browsing works?

Browing is okay, nothing to say really, it's as fast as you would expect.

Apps are opening quickly, animations are fast, typing doesn't lag, yeah I do consider that snappy.

Sure if you start a game, it will just destroy the poor gpu and the camera is garbage by today's standards but that's expected.

https://wiki.lineageos.org/devices/ looks like it's hundreds of devices.

It's hundreds of devices that have been supported at some point. It's far fewer that have official builds of the current version. The Pixel 3 line (2019) for example, doesn't have builds of LineageOS 20 (Android 13), though there are still updates for the LineageOS 19 (Android 12) builds.

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