Discussion about offficial LineageOS support from FP (and why it won't happen)

[PackElend]

@Patrick1

in which @Douwe gave an important statement which was:

@Douwe

The majority of people expect a standard OS that works out of the box with the apps they use and need.

That is a major point maybe not only for people like me.

I aggree int terms of the main OS, in particulare with respect to commercial aspects as he mentioned as well.
On the other hand, whom of the users buying a Windows PC, know that there might be a better alternative for their purpose, called Linux. I know this discussion is endless.

In regard to the alternative OS.

• Users who install those OSs can be regarded as user who, supposedly, know what they do and a discussion between them and support could be much more efficient and productive in sense of debugging.
• If we talking about reliability, support, response time etc. I would say you have to go into the very details who approach is better as FP software engineers only work on the open OS in their spare time at work.
• LineageOS is closer to Android 8 as FP to Android 7 and the dev. community is a way larger than the one of FP, from whom FP could profit as well.
• Going for LineageOS allows me to run the phone on almost up to date Android what is a plus in terms of long term usage of the Fairphone.

@Patrick1

Also its open business mind allows users to self-install other OS on the platform without loosing warranty, and this is not very common these days.

I’m really that is possible I wish FP would go down further this road and trying to cooperate with the dev. community as it is done by BLOCKS (as mentioned in my post