Post #4092403

2026-07-25 10:43 UTC

wow grapheneos people are so insistant on being called a #linuxphone and a part of #linuxmobile initiative.. its like a traditional chess player appearing at a hexagonal Glinsky's chess tournament claiming he knows how to play chess so he should be there! yes, technically android uses the linux kernel and runs on mobile devices, but that doesnt give grapheneos a right to come to #mobilelinux (pine64, postmarketos) party and ask to be treaned as equal. android ecosystem is it's own thing, and mobile linux projects are a completely different thing. theyre not "systemd mobile" either as some do not use systemd there. there is a substantial difference between mobile linux distros and android roms, and i can't imagine what kind of bully you need to be to claim that your android rom has a right to stand in the same row as #linux distros https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/116975553767986938

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@ralen@social.ralen.top 2026-07-25 10:57

at this point i see what they are trying to do. they just want people to use grapheneos and dont really care about other projects! that is a good example of how not to encourage people to try your product. some time ago i was considering buying a pixel to install grapheneos (or some other rom as pixels are good for roms, but i was specifically interested in graphene), and im glad my money didnt come to google and my time to this project that doesnt seem to know what a healthy collaboration should look like. i am not saying pixel phones are trash or grapheneos is garbage - it may be achieving its purpose well in terms of privacy and everything, but how they position themself, i dont see much of free software spirit in that. trying to become an alternative to google they inherit too much from that google that should not have been inherited. i will never use grapheneos personally nor recommend it to a free software enthusiast https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/116975915281766580

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