Honestly, even if you need some Google services, just get things like gapp (or whatever its called, forgot) and you are good to go.
I want to try GrapheneOS, but no one I know owns any old (or new) pixel device and compiling and running as emulator (like for developing purposes) requires like 500gb of storage on PC for it.
PostMarketOS sounded fun but I couldn’t get waydroid to start without crashing
GAPPS have Google Play services and the other one that I can’t think of the name of right offhand mimics play services. I don’t need play services for anything since I run open source software on my device and have not had a Google account in over two years now.
I still need it for 2 games I like to play on my phone, maybe other things too, it was only recently that I started slowly moving away from being dependent on google
That’s the one. It just would not come to me in the moment. I don’t have GAPPS or MicroG installed on my device at all. My view is that if an app won’t run without it, then I didn’t need that app to start with.
Edit: Not having those is basically an immunization against crappy apps that want to steal your data and mine you for profit.
Honestly, even if you need some Google services, just get things like gapp (or whatever its called, forgot) and you are good to go.
I want to try GrapheneOS, but no one I know owns any old (or new) pixel device and compiling and running as emulator (like for developing purposes) requires like 500gb of storage on PC for it.
PostMarketOS sounded fun but I couldn’t get waydroid to start without crashing
GAPPS have Google Play services and the other one that I can’t think of the name of right offhand mimics play services. I don’t need play services for anything since I run open source software on my device and have not had a Google account in over two years now.
MicroG?
I still need it for 2 games I like to play on my phone, maybe other things too, it was only recently that I started slowly moving away from being dependent on google
That’s the one. It just would not come to me in the moment. I don’t have GAPPS or MicroG installed on my device at all. My view is that if an app won’t run without it, then I didn’t need that app to start with.
Edit: Not having those is basically an immunization against crappy apps that want to steal your data and mine you for profit.