with the recent news about the things that were said about Google slowing down Firefox on purpose, are they doing this because they severily dislike Firefox/open source? :c If so, that wouldn’t make a lot of sense!!! Because Google loves open source too. I read they were doing this to stop adblockers, and well if you use Firefox without those, it can work maybe! I use Chromium and Google Chrome on Ubuntu u
OK, I admit, I was looking into this a few years ago, so I don’t have the lastest info on this. Back then, drivers were the biggest problem. I had an Asus ZenFone 3 Max back then and I really wanted to try and run LineageOS on it. Turns out, everything works 🥳, except for RIL 😒. I could live without bluetooth or IR, that’s fine, but… this is a phone, it’s primary purpose is to make phone calls, not be a tablet. Hell, I could buy a $50 one if I really wanted a tablet.
My point is, there will always be obsticles and ways to overcome them. The only question is, is it worth my time and effort. A thing like ReVanced that takes 2 minutes to install, yeah, sure. But me doing backflips once every 2 or 3 months to overcome paying for things, nah, that’s just not worth it.
I stand behind this, there is no point in forking Android, you gain nothing. Simple apps that don’t need anything to run, yeah, those will run just fine, but as you mentioned, anything that involves data transfer to google services will be a hard to swallow pill. It’s just not worth it IMO. Better invest your time in a new platform. Sure it’s gonna be hard for it to take off, but hey, at least you’re not investing your time in a lost battle.