De Google, E OS vs Lineage OS, opinions and experience

[Alex.A]

A little collection of topics you can have a look at:

Understanding alternative OS's

Let me just give you a table with all choices and which of your requirements they fit. In the table below: Stock refers to the OS preinstalled on the FP3+ by Fairphone /e/ refers to /e/OS Lineage refers to Lineage without anything added Lineage (microG) refers to LineageOS for microG Lineage (GPlay) refers to LineageOS with Google Play manually added Ubuntu Touch refers to, well, Ubuntu Touch Y = Yes M = Mostly B = Barely N = No Stock /e/ Lineage Lineage (microG) Lineage (GPlay) Ubun…

Operating Systems for Fairphones

This is a wiki post and a list of all dic:operatingsystem that can be installed on the following Fairphone models (wikipedia OS list can be found here however this is not Fairphone specific): Fairphone 1(U)    Fairphone OS Fairphone 2    Fairphone OS    Fairphone Open OS    divestOS    /e/OS    Lineage OS    Sailfish OS    Ubuntu Touch Fairphone 3(+)    Fairphone OS    divestOS    /e/OS    Lineage OS    Lineage OS for MicroG    Ubuntu Touch    iodéOS    GSI Image  …

/e/ Pie is out for FP2

In short: /e/ is basically LineageOS tweaked for more privacy and with a selection of pre-installed Apps which should make it seamlessly usable by about anybody. Lets boldly and simply say you could give a phone running /e/ to your parents or grandparents with much less hassle afterwards than you would have if you gave them one with LineageOS. In halfway short: /e/ take LineageOS as a base, throw out as much Google stuff as they can still find to improve privacy (which is not the top priori…

I know I have missed a lot of other very well written posts as this topic was quite extensively discussed already

I personally prefer Lineage for UI and simplicity reasons, /e/ for security reasons. And at the end I use a slightly tweaked Lineage.