Does anybody use Ubuntu Touch as their daily driver? If not what other OS could you recommend.
Im looking to de googlefy as much as I can and also looking to have more freedom with what I can / cannot do with my own phone.
I have a fairphone 5, graphene isn’t supported and I don’t think I want /e/os.
Open to suggestions however I won’t be able to change hardware.
Assume i know next to nothing. Why would it be a good choice in your opinion? Better / worse than Ubuntu?
LineageOs is basically android without google. You can install the google stuff if you want it, or use open source alternatives like microg. F-droid replaces Google play. It gives you access to all the open source apps that do the stuff you do.
Ubuntu touch is more of a full Linux distro that has been optimized for a phone. It works. Mostly things function, but it is limited. Not a lot of support for mobile type apps.
I’ve used both on a few phones. I daily use lineages. I don’t think Ubuntu is ready for daily use yet. I think with lineages, you could install it get it set up in a few hours. Take a week to find apps to replace the ones your used to. And you would not really notice that your on lineageOS.
My recommendations is to just install f-droid now and start using open source apps instead of whatever you are using. Slowly eliminate all the apps from google play. Take a month to see if you can live without google. If you can, switch to lineageOS. If not, at least you learned something.
Thanks. That’s really helpful.
Already using F droid (have been for a couple of months now) and OS was the next step I was thinking off.