Yes, and how do you get to LineageOS? Bootloader unlock (a complete pain on most brands, if even possible).

Then there’s the whole Play Integrity thing messing with your mobile payments, biometrics in certain apps, or complete refusal to work (funniest/most stupid example being the McDonalds app).

Then there’s the whole thing of being unable to relock your bootloader for added security because damn near no one supports Android Verified Boot. Relocking means bricking the device.

I should make a bigger effort to write down the things I’d miss from Android if I left…

I do love my ROMs though. Lineage can be a bit lacking in features and customization for my liking. My favorites are EvoX and crDroid, they’re good at basically everything for a “heavy” ROM. PixelExperience was the bomb while it was going. RIP 🫡

I’ve been keeping my most recent phone (my first flagship) stock for peace of mind, but the siren song of real customization and AOSP is calling me…

was

I learned about the existence of Ubuntu from a computer magazine and tried out the live USB soon after. It took me many years of sporadic trial and error, but then the Wayland session started becoming really good on NVIDIA GPUs, games started having less issues (and I got it though my head that NTFS causes tons of problems), and I eventually learnt enough, that I stopped missing Windows. I kept an install around for racing sims and just-in-case for years, but I got Assetto Corsa working more or less reliably and it became redundant. I deleted my Windows partition a couple of weeks ago.

I learnt from trial and error, a few videos, a few articles, and the Arch Wiki. A friend is hounding me to try NixOS, and I want to get familiar with Fedora to convert a few relatives, but right now it’s looking like Arch 4ever for me.

KZones?

Micro also has syntax highlighting, multiple buffers with split editors, and theming, among other things. It’s pretty dang neat

Eeny, meeny, miny- YOU