Years ago, on Fridays, we would share Custom ROM Friday posts that would highlight new and exciting developments in the world of custom Android ROMs. It was great times, as it seemed like the majority of our readers at the time were deep into running custom software and accessing root...

Do you root or do you go straight to ROMs?

  • deweydecibel@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    8 months ago

    Meanwhile the custom features that I used to want became mostly standard within Android.

    See, I’m the opposite.

    I never used to flash ROMs or root my phone until Android 11. I won’t tolerate a device that tells me what I can and can’t access in the file explorer when I was previously able to. I won’t accept an Android OS that removes features I used and puts up barriers. And there are many things LineageOS let’s me do that stock won’t. Settings that get hidden and functions that get removed.