Hey, guys. I have a spare Sony 10 IV, which supports Sailfish OS and Lineage OS. I would like to install one of them and have the experience of getting away from Google. My criteria would be how usable (how stable and how much I can use it for the usual daily tasks) and how easy would be to install it. Thanks for your help!
18 Comments
hexagonwin@lemmy.today · 18 pts · 24d
both are solid options, lineageos is just android while sailfish is a whole different os and doesn't work natively with android apps
uuj8za@piefed.social · 9 pts · 24d
Technically, I guess. But the Android emulation layer they have is superb, so you can still run tons of Android apps quite well.
Caves_of_steel@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 24d
Can it run banking apps ?
uuj8za@piefed.social · 9 pts · 22d
I can try it. Which banking app do you use? DM me your username and password.
umbrella@lemmy.ml · 9 pts · 24d
probably not and neither do lineage usually.
eleitl@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 22d
Mine runs fine. Also runs on GOS.
Jean_le_Flambeur@discuss.tchncs.de · 1 pts · 23d
Mine runs in lineage
luciferofastora@feddit.org · 1 pts · 21d
Lineage runs mine just fine, though it does require the google services addon
umbrella@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 21d
i'm curious what everyone's bank is. mine stopped working this year.
luciferofastora@feddit.org · 2 pts · 20d
Mine is a large German bank; I'd rather not say which one specifically.
hexagonwin@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 23d
isn't alien dalvik proprietary and paid? or do you mean waydroid?
garbage_world@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 22d
hexagonwin@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 22d
bruh. AOSP literally stands for Android Open Source Project
garbage_world@lemmy.world · -2 pts · 22d
uuj8za@piefed.social · 4 pts · 23d
Try both and report back.
I've only used SailfishOS and the hardware experience on the Sony Xperia 10 III was good. I think everything worked.
Squizzy@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 22d
What was the camera quakity like, this is my major concern with moving OS. Contactless payment, phone projection in the car and camera quality.
Jean_le_Flambeur@discuss.tchncs.de · 2 pts · 23d
First of all: i havent used sailfish nor a Sony 10 IV so take everything with a grain of salt, but:
When looking for a familiar alternative to normal android, lineage is your go to. If there is an official build for the device it will most certainly work for everything in its power.
If a banking app doesn't allow running without google services, it won't run on degoogled lineage, but that's not really lineages fault.
I used lineage for years, and though you sometimes "feel" its a custom ROM (sometimes something doesn't work on the first try but randomly on the third, and the like) I always was able to satisfy my needs in a phone.
If you rely on apps that purposely don't run on custom ROMs, and can't find an alternative, you will need a second drawer smartphone for those I fear, but I don't think this would be any better under sailfish.
richardisaguy@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 24d
Salfish will be nore fun but guve you more headaches, lineage will be less fun buy give you less
Eggman@thelemmy.club · 1 pts · 23d
LineageOS is android and more secure because of that. Android has strict selinux policy's and good sandboxing i would not use a linux phone.
garbage_world@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 22d
prunerye@slrpnk.net · 0 pts · 24d
I don't know what the state of either is on a Sony 10 IV, but the answer is almost certainly Lineage. It's the more mature project, and it's way more likely to work. And at the risk of getting on a high horse, Lineage's unfortunate but necessary (if you actually want your phone to work) reliance on proprietary blobs is already bad enough; I certainly wouldn't trust my privacy to a project like Sailfish, which I understand to be partially closed source.