For the past 15 years, F-Droidhas provided a safe and secure haven for Android users around the world tofind and install free and open source apps. When cont...
I’ll run my own copy of the F-Droid servers, before I bend my knee to Google. So will others.
Edit: But yes, you are correct that Linux phone is the long term solution. Android is a pile of corporate Java. Linux is a lean sleek set of mature highly optimized tools. Once the big show-stoppers are cleared, my Linux phone will be the envy of all who see me use it.
The big problem is, I think many apps will cease to get updates as the devs stop developing on Android. Just running F-Droid is not going to solve this.
Most of those on a Google ROM isn’t moving to GNU/Linux, its either Lineage, Graphene, etc…, or just give up on these non-google apps. “Linux” is so broken and dysfunctional compared to Android ROMs.
Nah. F-Droid is already federation-ready. https://f-droid.org/docs/Installing_the_Server_and_Repo_Tools/
I’ll run my own copy of the F-Droid servers, before I bend my knee to Google. So will others.
Edit: But yes, you are correct that Linux phone is the long term solution. Android is a pile of corporate Java. Linux is a lean sleek set of mature highly optimized tools. Once the big show-stoppers are cleared, my Linux phone will be the envy of all who see me use it.
The big problem is, I think many apps will cease to get updates as the devs stop developing on Android. Just running F-Droid is not going to solve this.
Where will devs move? Apple is even worse
I don’t know, Linux? But if they don’t want to get the dev certificate I doubt they continue to develop on Android.
Doubt it.
Most of those on a Google ROM isn’t moving to GNU/Linux, its either Lineage, Graphene, etc…, or just give up on these non-google apps. “Linux” is so broken and dysfunctional compared to Android ROMs.