Like I don’t have space in my life right now to do a whole lot of actual tinkering but google is pissing me off and I just remember in middle school just being able to change the boot order in the bios and plug in a usb stick and a few hours later having mint installed. What’s the easiest way to get a clean de-googled os on my phone?
Since it keeps coming up, I have a unihertz atom, a moto g 2022 and one of these monstrosities
Extra bonus question, if I do wind up buying a new phone in the future what brands should I look out for? (But I’d like to keep using what I have until the hardware breaks if possible).
lineage and its siblings like graphene. degoogled or with microg if you can. i think you can bypass some banks and stuff for detecting root, but it is annoying and impractical afaik. postmarket if you are feeling adventurous, it’s full gnu/linux and a beta quality experience so far.
that’s if your phone supports any of it at all. they don’t make it too easy for you to exercise your ownership over your own hardware these days, like the bios thing of yesteryear.
the amout of tinkering will depend on which device and whether or not you need some of the apps that block themselves out from running in a different rom.
honestly, you can start by replacing proprietary apps by foss ones.