-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 12-11-17 04:17 AM, [email protected] wrote: > I'm not as techy as I'd like to be, so I'm using Android 'as is', and I'm not > even remotely impressed. I hate the way the apps are hardboiled into the OS so that I can't delete them, and are using up precious memory instead of installing onto the SD card.
Maybe try CyanogenMod or Replicant (depending on what device you have), they take care of both (deleting system apps and automatically moving apps to SD). > > I also hate the way Google integrates everything - I haven't bought any apps because I don't want to hand over my credit card to the play store. And it makes the core functions - making a phone call - more complicated than they ought to be. Being able to run a proper OS on a tablet is critical for me. So don't use any of it. When you install CyanogenMod for example you *optionally* install the Google Apps - results in a *very* different experience, reminding me of the same efforts when I started with Trisquel. No Flash? No problem, but you need to research/understand why. So far I have been able to reproduce most of the Google experience. The most challenging is everything that depends on their servers (contacts/calendar/backups etc.). OwnCloud helps a bit with that. I am hoping at some point Replicant will include such functionality by default. Although all the pieces seem to be there to make this with 100% free open source software, it's far from automatic or integrated. Very hard to sell that to someone that already is into Google's services. F. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: PGP/Mime available upon request Comment: Using GnuPG with undefined - http://www.enigmail.net/ iEYEARECAAYFAlCnnf4ACgkQfUcTXFrypNVnuQCfV9tyV6mCAaxJlQeVOgs9e+UC 1RkAniEIxzkBKOYBZ/Rp+OkNWfrRU1N2 =jS9b -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
