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Most customizable OS for phones
| Ressurection Remix OS
LineageOS is the successor of Cyanogen
| Cyanogen is not developed since 2016, so I wouldnt use it, even if just for security reasons.
Android is good enough. Personally I think it's better to learn how to customize Android, how to use not-Google repositories, maybe rooting (not the necessarily the best idea). Cyan and Lineage are really just modded Android. Which is modded Linux.
| >>269281
To impress you even more:
There also are custom OSs for routers and other small network devices like NAS boxes:
Open-WRT
Have fun!
| >>269320
Wow, that was really unexpected
>>269292
Thx
>>269298
Isn't it hard to manually customize android at a level of a custom rom?
| I think stoxk Android is good enough, with widgets and stuff. There are launchers too, but I could never figure out whether they run instead of or over stock UI.
| >>270130 Actually, how launchers work is they're an app installed on the phone that just manages other apps. The stock one (usually Trebuchet or the Google Now Launcher/Pixel Launcher) operates the same as one you'd get from the playstore. They don't run on top of each other, but can interact with each other (importing layouts). Usually, you can even disable the stock one if you want to prevent it from running in the background.
| >>ae853d XDA is your friend. Look up by model/variant to see what the custom ROM scene for your phone is like. If you really want to get crazy with it and you don't care about apps locked behind SafetyNet, look up Xposed Framework. Otherwise, just use Magisk.
| >>40bba2 XDA is great, and you can always use information from there to build the entire AOSP environment of you want to get crazy.
| Supposedly the blokes behind KDE have their own Android build for Nexus devices. There's also Copperhead, but that's more privacy oriented
| Copperhead is nice and all, but it's only supported on four phone models. LineageOS has a much wider support, though granted, it's not as privacy oriented as Copperhead. Still better than stock Android, imho.
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| So i recently heard about cyanogen and i was impressed that like on computer there are OSs on phones that are fully customizable. Can you recommend more OS like cyanogen where i can customize everything?