LineageOS
Operating system for smartphones and tablet computers, based on the Android
What is LineageOS?
A free and open-source operating system for smartphones and tablet computers, based on the Android mobile platform. It is the successor to the highly popular custom ROM CyanogenMod, from which it was forked in December 2016 when Cyanogen Inc. announced it was discontinuing development and shut down the infrastructure behind the project. Since Cyanogen Inc. retained the rights to the Cyanogen name, the project rebranded its fork as LineageOS.
LineageOS was officially launched on December 24, 2016, with the source code available on GitHub. Since that time, LineageOS has been described as highly popular and forcibly developed; within 4 months from the initial announcement, LineageOS development builds covered more than 160 models of phone, and over a million users, having doubled its user base in the month February–March 2017.
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LineageOS is the best AOSP ROM. It's relatively easy to install, has support for a wide array of devices, and remains completely Google-free upon initial installation, which is a huge plus for those of us who do not want our personal information harvested by Google.
Lineage is a very vanilla, neutral project to port many devices to an AOSP-based distribution of Android. It doesn't include the bells and whistles of other projects, but that's the point.
Countless other distributions use LineageOS as their starting point, and that's for good reason.
Since Lineage OS is essentially the flagship android aftermarket software this has had an increased impact in preventing people from ditching Google's walled garden. The proposed security reasons are ostensibly valid, but it seems more likely to be about keeping Google happy.
Devs claim they don't have enough time to let users change ANY COLOR AT ALL, but they have plenty of time to lock out microG and magisk. These guys are idiots.
Hands down the best custom ROM I've tried so far. It allows you to install an Android operating system without the usual annoying apps and games that many phone companies tend to add to their commercially distributed Android systems. What I like the most is the option of being able to install the Google Apps by myself, being "Pico" the best option (the lighter version of the GApps). The only disadvantage is that it is necessary to have some advanced knowledge (make backups, root and install a custom recovery bootloader) being that there are also many phone models that are not supported, especially the Sony Xperia M series. There are users who solve this by installing a similar version for a different phone, but this usually produces incompatibilities, such as malfunctions of the front camera, among other various issues.
AWFUL UI changes. Terrible colour scheme. No easy way to revert without Gapps.
Doesn't include any of the useful tweaks that things like Cyanogenmod did.
Barely supports any devices and nothing even remotely recent without relying on 3rd parties to do the dev's work.
3/10 would not recommend at all.
It's open source. If you are not satisfied with how many devices are supported, go learn programming and contribute.
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