Not yet, but as long as google is in charge, they would keep enshitifying it gradually (hence boiling the pot/frog).

Quoting https://keepandroidopen.org/ “”" Nine steps. A mandatory 24-hour cooling-off period. For installing software on a device you own.

Worse: this flow runs entirely through Google Play Services, not the Android OS. Google can change it, tighten it, or kill it at any time, with no OS update required and no consent needed. And as of today, it hasn’t shipped in any beta, preview, or canary build. It exists only as a blog post and some mockups.

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The principle being established: the company that made your device gets to decide, after you’ve bought it, what software you’re allowed to run. In software, this is called a “rug pull”; but at least you could always install competing software. In hardware, it is a fait accompli that strips you of your agency and renders you powerless to the whims of a single unaccountable gatekeeper and convicted monopolist. “'”

I mean they fund kernel development which in turn indirectly funds OS . Like, what would the OS run without a kernel

I’d disagree with that. The fact that they maintain a really good privacy respecting OS publicly available and open source is a point to me

On another note, do you think the EU would have interest in forking android considering its push towards digital sovereignty away from US big tech

I guess you could put it that way. For most general applications, I prefer to use flatpak over pacman. Pacman and arch’s repos to me are still very confusing over other package managers (dnf, apt, etc)

Was stuck with cinnamon and xfce in my first few years of Linux due to crap hardware lol. It reminded me of windows XP/ 7 and I still prefer cinnamon over most other DEs