Why are we still fighting smartphone bloatware in 2025?
Why are we still fighting smartphone bloatware in 2025?
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Why are we still fighting smartphone bloatware in 2025?
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Money
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Now I got that Pink Floyd song in my head
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I moved from samsung's trash-filled bloat os to lineageos, and my only regret is not doing it sooner.
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The frustrating thing is all the information and materials to support Samsung devices is out there, but the custom ROM development community is so ridiculously toxic and unhelpful to newcomers that few people are willing and able to mainline new devices (and supporting a new device is complicated enough that you pretty much can't get started without someone more experienced to point out the decades of cruft, pitfalls, and vendor-specific workarounds that the build processes have accumulated). More of the old guard leaves every year without enough new blood to replace them.
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I buy my device only based on if I can load a differenti os
This is the mandatory prerequisite for me.
So i bought a refurbished s20u (same spec of s24u except for camera and CPU basically)
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No clue, my phone is not exactly recent.
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Search for lineage os your phone model if you're lucky someone will have ported the project to your device, the more popular it was the more likely
There are reasonable instructions
Your phone will need an unlocked bootloader, and it will not be able to be locked again while running lineage. This will prevent the use of any secure software which includes most bank apps, login authenticators. Local security is entirely bypassed by the unlocked bootloader
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Use it Google free
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Because Google and Samsung are rich and powerful.
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I just install LineageOS. It doesn't have any bloatware or Android modifications that the manufacturer added
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That's great if you have one of the handful of phones supported, but for the rest of us, not so much.
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GrapheneOS > LineageOS, but unfortunately the list of supported devices is even smaller.
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I don't even pay any attention. I boot the phone for the very first time, go through the setup thing, and click no to as many things as possible, get into the home screen, open settings, open developer settings, turn on USB debugging, and turn the phone off and install lineage OS with no Google apps.
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Shizuku + canta and you can forget about bloatware
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Worthless article. But the point is valid...
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They bought it...
Not my problem if someone doesn't read the tiniest bit about a $600+ product before purchase.
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I haven't considered Google android as usable for like a decade, went down the custom ROM route and it's the best thing I've ever done when it comes to mobile use.
Being able to install what ever operating system I want is a hard make or break for me when it comes to purchases ever since.
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It's 2025 already?
Shit, I overslept again.
Wake me up when this eternal September ends