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At least iPadOS isn’t preloaded with crud and questionable at best modifications like Android on many devices is. One of my biggest gripes with Android devices
by kitsunesoba 4y ago
At least iPadOS isn’t preloaded with crud and questionable at best modifications like Android on many devices is.
One of my biggest gripes with Android devices is that they don’t come with the option of installing plain mainline Android out of the box, meaning you’re stuck with whatever modifications e.g. Samsung has deemed necessary until a big third party distro like LineageOS adds support for your device or someone on some forum posts a dodgy unofficial build. This means that if you want a clean experience your best bet is to be behind the curve on hardware but that’s no fun, particularly if you’re wanting to use the device for a task where the extra power (or lack thereof) is readily apparent.
I’d be more inclined to buy something like a Galaxy tablet if I could treat them like prebuilt Windows PCs and upon receiving them nuke them and put clean Android on them, but that doesn’t look to be happening any time soon. I know open tablet projects exist to fix this and that’s great, but those suffer from hardware that’s anemic in comparison to flagship bigcorp stuff.
- htag 4y ago> I’d be more inclined to buy something like a Galaxy tablet if I could treat them like prebuilt Windows PCs and upon receiving them nuke them and put clean Android on them I'm a bit confused by this statement. 1. What is "clean" Android? 2. How do you put clean Android on a prebuilt Windows PC? 3. Why do you put clean Android on any PC?
- yardstick 4y agoReplace all instances of the word “them” with “tablet” and re-read.
- Retric 4y agoThe them isn’t referring to a windows PC. “I’d be more inclined to buy something like a Galaxy tablet if I could treat them [a Galaxy tablet] like prebuilt Windows PCs and upon receiving them[a Galaxy tablet] nuke them [a Galaxy Tablet] and put clean Android on them [the Galaxy tablet]”
- kitsunesoba 4y agoFor #1, "clean" Android is analogous to "clean" Windows, in other words Android minus all carrier and manufacturer junk. For #2 and #3, it's as the sibling comments say; I want to be able to replace the customized versions of Android bundled by OEMs with "clean" Android, even if the device was just released yesterday.