Will LineageOS, Graphene and /e/OS be affected by Google’s changes to prevent sideloading? Is UbuntuTouch or Sailfish OS promising in the long term?
I understand that right now we are in a bad place, but in your opinion, what OS do you think people who care about freedom should rally around?
Ok thanks, as someone else explained to me the real issue is that Google is blocking device makers from allowing other OSs to be installed (but oddly Google devices aren’t among them).
It seems fairphone is the only option right now but Graphene doesn’t have a release for them.
No, device makers are in charge of unlocking their bootloaders, not Google. Google itself as a device maker allows unlocking of their bootloader, on current Pixels.
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This comment seems about potential EU legislation designed to lock bootloaders so that the phone radios are guaranteed to run a particular proprietary baseband blob.
OK