Is this as safe as installing Lineage OS, microG, and F-Droid seperately? I am thinking to finally make the jump away from Android (and preferrably all of Google) and this looks like a really really handy solution. Perhaps too handy, if you get my drift. Is this a legit project or is it just a wrapper to send all my data to Tel Aviv?
With enough time and coffee I think I could eventually manage to install Lineage OS, microG, and F-Droid individually but LineageOS for microG seems to have it all wrapped in a bow for me.
TIA!
Um… What?
Oh, is this an akshully? Man you are cool and smart!
Yeah, because you want to „de-Google“ your android, more than you want to Switch away from android. Just Nomenclature to make your Google searches more fruitful
I want to change the operating system on my phone from Android to LineageOS. Yes, they are both based on AOSP and you are absolutely right, I want to de-Google my mobile phone.
The A in AOSP literally stands for Android. AOSP is Android.
It’s a fair distinction to make. There are AOSP ROMS that make enough changes to the code that they are no longer legally considered to be an “Android” distribution, GrapheneOS for example. I don’t know where LineageOS falls on that spectrum, but its a real possibility that the code may be drawn from AOSP, but it no longer can call itself Android. Maybe Android-based, but thats it.
My favorite part of this post is that I asked a question before even dipping my toes into the world of custom ROMs and literally 40 seconds after I posted, JASN_DE hit me up with the equivalent of “akshully it’s GNU/Linux” XD
It’s like Stevie Wonder said, “Nerds, keep on nerdin” lol <3
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This is solid advice.
I still don’t get it though, and I’m sure there’s a lot of terminology I don’t know yet about custom ROMs so maybe that’s where the misunderstanding lies. Are you telling me that LineageOS is the same operating system as the Android I already have on my phone? No, right?
I feel like this is like saying “I’m going to delete Ubuntu off my laptop and install Pop!_OS” and someone comes along and says “akshully POP!_OS is Ubuntu!” or saying they’re both Debian or something.
An astute observation, franzbroetchen. The OS in LineageOS literally stands for Operating System, which ima change. On my phone. From Android to LineageOS.
You’ve gotta look at the context of the words sometimes, comrade. I am not looking to change my Android phone into an Apple phone lol