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[โ€“] crt0o@lemm.ee 14 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Just wondering, why wouldn't you want to run Android? AOSP is fully open source, google free, and runs on linux anyways, these other OSs are just bound to be buggier...

[โ€“] pathief@lemmy.world 27 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)

As far as I know, AOSP is largely maintained by Google. Without the Google Play Services you lose key functionalities such as notification service or the ability to use home banking apps.

While alternative play services such as microG exist, in my personal experience they are buggy as hell. My banking apps continued not to work and notifications were often delayed by several hours.

I'd love a real opensource linux alternative driven by the community without a big tech dictating what goes in or not. We're not there yet but it's cool to see people trying.

[โ€“] PraiseTheSoup@lemm.ee 3 points 5 days ago

Will online banking services work on whatever OS this device in the OP uses? It seems pretty unlikely.

[โ€“] EngineerGaming@feddit.nl 1 points 5 days ago

Where I am, most banking apps are actually indifferent to Google. Because you know what else doesn't have Google services besides custom ROMs? Chinese phones like Huawei!

[โ€“] fxdave@lemmy.ml 11 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

AOSP is a huge set of unknown. Despite it's Linux, it's not like my Arch where I can contribute to the OS. There are arbitrary security measures against the user protecting the device maker, not the user. Where's my sudo command, where's my terminal?