How "open-source" is your phone in %?

mlg, 3 months ago

non AOSP android might as well be 2% with the amount of garbage google unloads onto it lol

Avero, 3 months ago

~150 total and 67 on f-droid/neo store so like half is FOSS

AlexSup21, 3 months ago

like 70%

WeLoveCastingSpellz, 3 months ago

%99 if not %100

sharkfucker420, 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago)

Well like 50% of my apps are open source but I still use android so I mean, how open source is it really. Anyone know of FOSS launchers? I currently use Niagara and it looks great but I’d love something open source

ace_garp, 3 months ago

Kvaesitso is great. A search focussed approach to finding apps or files.

I’ve tried 10 or so launchers, and this one is the best so far.

f-droid.org/packages/de.mm20.launcher2.release/

sharkfucker420, 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago)

Solid, i am now using this Alternative icons from my icon pack unfortunately do not work but i’ll live

Lileath, 3 months ago

Did you try KISS launcher? If yes, what did you like more about Kvaesitso that you use it instead?

cabbage, 3 months ago

I'm a huge fan of the KISS launcher, everything else feels bloated and annoying to me now.

ace_garp, 3 months ago

Highly recommend KISS. They are both equally great launchers.

I used KISS prior to this one. It is an excellent paged launcher.

My KISS install had an issue of requesting a permission everytime I unlocked the phone. I could not remove the notification or mute it. So I switched out.

Either of them covered all of the features I am looking for.

DaseinPickle, 3 months ago

Very few apps. I’m just trying to encrypt as much as possible, because I think the most important thing is to stay in control of my information. Hopefully a proper Linux phone will emerge at some point. I have experimented with the Pinephone and it’s promising, but there is still a lot of work to do.

shortwavesurfer, 3 months ago

97.05% of my apps are FOSS, running on LineageOS with no google apps or play services obviously

JackGreenEarth, 3 months ago

I have slightly too many apps to count…

https://share.jackgreenearth.org/png/Screenshot_20240304-075633.png

patak, 3 months ago

relatable

Asudox, 3 months ago

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JackGreenEarth, 3 months ago

Yes, the label ‘Edge Dev’ gives it away.

ClusterBomb, 3 months ago

1 app on 76 apps is not open-source. So 98.7% of my apps are open-source !

muntedcrocodile, 3 months ago

My hardware 0%. My software well i got a foss os and mostly use foss apps but have some non-free apps i need cos other people are not enlightened and i still need to communicate with them. An estimate maybe 80-90% foss.

Ik u asked about non privacy respecting phones but i had to weigh in anyways. (On google pixel with graphene os and find most my apps on fdroid)

SMillerNL, 3 months ago

I’m guessing a lot of it seeing how tons of apps use open source components and libraries whenever possible.

altima_neo, 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago)

I have a Samsung S22 Ultra. I just have firefox on it… so I dunno. Like zero percent probably.

user224, 3 months ago

I have 284 apps including system apps and excluding system services. With system services, it’s 567. I counted 186 explicitly installed. It’s hard to tell which ones are open source, as not all of those are from F-Droid.
I counted 48.

So roughly 25% of what I installed.

tal, 3 months ago

It’d be interesting to have an app to measure that!

harsh3466, 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago)

I have 50 apps total.

Of the 50, 17 are system apps that can’t be removed (iPhone), leaving me with 33 apps that I’ve installed.

Of the 33 installed apps, 17 are self hosted and/or fully or partially open source apps & services, which works out to 51%

Edit to add: I choose open source whenever possible.

patak, 3 months ago

me too. open source software is the most privacy respecting and in a ton of cases it has more/better features.

harsh3466, 3 months ago

I love open source. Both the philosophy, and the incredible usability of it all.