I usually buy either Xiaomi or Oppo phones and I am pretty happy.

I really want to try one of these one day: https://devices.ubuntu-touch.io/promoted/

But I haven't dared yet because I kind of expect it will not be able to replace my current phone.

Is anyone successfully running Android inside a container in Linux, for their daily apps?

So which one has the biggest chance to be Android/iOS alternative?

Many many years ago, smarphone users had these choices:

Symbian, BlackBerry, Windows Mobile, PalmOS... what else?

Jolla still exists:

https://jolla.com/

They develop Sailfish, a non-Google Linux-based mobile OS that can apparently run Android apps decently in a sandbox.

I moved to a Fairphone 6 with /e/OS a few weeks ago. I can do everything I need to, everything I want to, and with more control over my digital footprint and what data is being collected about me. I've completely moved off Google services.

The OS experience is pretty impressive for not being made by an evil megacorp. The hardware is fairly midrange, but midrange today is last year's top end, and unless you're some expert photographer or needing phone VR or whatever, it's a great, normal smartphone experience.

I'm donating to the open source devs who make my apps, and they respond when I ask for useful features instead of always enshittifying it. For the corpo apps, it pulls from Google Play.

I use a Librem5 Linux phone. With the default PureOS operating system.

Enjoy your freedom, break free from Google and Apple.

Have a full Linux computer in your pocket that you can also use for calling.

See also the discussion on this post: https://mastodon.social/@janvlug/116504044251287290

This article fails to mention GrapheneOS.

The article starts with Murena, Punkt, Volla which are all based on Android. If you do this, then imho you must mention GrapheneOS, the by far better option (updates, privacy, security, organisation).

(the Google Pixel with GrapheneOS is the best non-Google phone... ;-))

> But can I run my apps?

> Well, probably, yes.

Even with "probably" as a qualifier, this is disingenuous.

Not even Android has caught up to the highest tier of apps available on iOS.