Understanding alternative OS's

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@michaelb

but do not want to go back to Android.

Hi and welcome to the forum, sadly Lineage and it’s version are all android, just degrees of removing google specifics.

Fairphone default FOS (Fairphone OS) is still android as would be FOOS (Fairphone Open OS)

/e/ is just another play on android

See 13 Open Source Mobile OS Alternatives to Android

You can learn to de-google the phone to some degree. I have no google account and no google apps on FOS ~ no play store.

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