New phone thread on my experience with the current state of Android...
Bootloader unlocking is well-documented by the vendor and there were no surprises. Lineage OS (CM successor) was easy to install.
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I opted to omit GApps, instead installing microg to replace the missing services and a third-party Play store downloader (Yalp).
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Haven't hit anything that doesn't work yet; Youtube, GMail, Google Maps & Translate apps all work fine installed as normal unpriv'd apps.
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F-Droid covers a lot of the apps I want anyway, though, and does a much better job than Play of showing what's actually free & non-hostile.
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