While apple absolutly never pushes any pre-installed & uninstallable crap on you. No sir.
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CookieJarObserver@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Samsung phones are about 50% bloatware and 50% bad Android Software nowadays.
the_kalash@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Redredme@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Here I am, on my first Samsung ever, being happy that stuff just works again. (like it did on my Huawei, long, long ago)
Ymmv.
soviettaters@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Yeah Samsung sucks. I am never going to leave Android so if I want a decent lower-midrange phone I have to stick with Motorola.
d3Xt3r@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I’ve always been a Stock Android fanboi, but I really wanted to buy a foldable, so got myself a a Galaxy Fold 4 last year. This is the first Samsung I’ve used after decades - my last one being a Galaxy S2. I removed all bloat (including crap like Bixby) using Universal Android Debloater, and using a custom launcher, I don’t really miss stock Android. There’s no performance issues, no annoying TouchWiz bugs like in the old days, everything’s running pretty smoothly.
In saying that, ideally I’d love to unlock the bootloader and run LineageOS on it, but there’s no build out for it yet (and unlikely there will be one for a long time), also, I’m not sure if I want to play the whole SafteyNet cat-and-mouse game again. Shizuku works great for apps that need higher privileges, I use Droidify and open-source apps where possible, life is good.
RheingoldRiver@kbin.social 11 months ago
I've had Samsung phones for years and their software on my current phone has had me thinking I might switch to an iPhone whenever I upgrade (hopefully not soon), so, yeah. It was not this bad 10 years ago.
mpa92643@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I had the Samsung Note 2 back in the day. I installed a custom bootloader and OS that worked fantastically. I had GPS issues, and all the guides I read said I have to reinstall Samsung’s OS, get a GPS fix, then reinstall my custom OS.
I made the mistake of installing a newer version of the Samsung OS which installed Knox and locked down my bootloader. I was now locked into an old, insecure Android version with no possibility of ever upgrading because Samsung abandoned it.
From that day on, I vowed never to buy another Samsung product again. Screw them and their anti-choice bullshit.
Carterbuzz@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Had Samsungs for 10 years watching them slowly get worse and worse. Switched to a Pixel last year and couldn’t be happier.
tomten@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Same, cant stand Samsung’s bloated software not that pixel is perfect in this regard but miles better.
nikt@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
Same, but I switched to an iPhone. It was an annoying adjustment for a few months but now I’d never go back. Great hardware, but Samsung’s software is an almost comical mess, and they seem to have zero awareness of how bad they are at it.