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this post was submitted on 28 Aug 2023
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The problem is manufactures are doing everything to sabotage users running custom roms on their devices. Frankly everything you highlight exists already, though there are very difficult problems on the image processing front. Personally I would much rather use a full Linux distribution on a phone, than AOSP without the play store.
Also micro G is not a solution. Having a desktop browser to access drive, docs and photos could be, especially if there were some unique rendering options for those things. (microG is bad, because Google can break it at their leisure)
Yeah - unfortunately the days of Android phones being totally customizable down to the root level are more-or-less gone unless you specifically buy the few models of phone that still allow this sort of thing.
Not gonna lie microg is not that bad, as everything as it's downsides, in my experience, indeed I'm writing this comment with a phone that has lineageos and microg installed.
Thing like gps are not the best not the worst either, bur every app I use work without any problem! And in the list there is even the app for my credit card.