I have a good experience with PocketBook.

At least you can still get a functional and minimalist homepage on Firefox by disabling it.

You can do that on Edge too btw.

Interesting to see that vast the majority of the people here use LineageOS.

It’s the more stable and bug-free ROM in my experience.

I am using Google wallet. It works with the Play Integrity Fix Magisk module. You just have to update it from time to time.

Lineage OS 21 (Android 14) on Poco X3 NFC.

I am using FlorisBoard. The development still seems to be active.

Can’t Python be translated into machine code and packaged into a binary? I swear I have no experience in OS development, just curious.

Will the permissions still be allowable by goinv to the app info page from the settings, clicking the 3 dot menu in the corner and taping to allow restricted settings?

You can just flash NikGapps after flashing the ROM (EDIT: I am not sure if the SONY’s flashing tool will allow you to do such things) to get Google services working. But if you want to pass the Play integrity and SafetyNet checks you will also have to root. It is a bit of a paradox that you have to root to pass these checks (maybe there’s a non-root solution I am not aware of, but I doubt that). For me the Play Integrity Fix Magisk module from chiteroman works well (Lineage OS v21). It just has to be updated once in a while.

I didn’t try that, but I think it is not possible, but since the Android is running on top of Linux, you just connect to your bluetooth headphones using the under Linux and it will have the same result.

On Linux there’s also the Waydroid project which might be a more safe option and actually runs pretty well on my budget machine considering it runs on top of another OS.

BlissOS might do?

They state x86_64 on their downloads page, so it is probably for 64 bit systems only, but OP’s tablet being from 2021 should be 64 bit.

I don’t recommend Fedora as a distro for this as they do not have the Maliit keyboard in the repos and you will have to build it yourself.

Last time I tryed Fedora KDE few months back it had a Maliit keyboard, but I was using the desktop version of the shell.

MacOS is open-source in its core?

You could use dash to panel extension, in the settings move the bar to the top, reorganize it as you wish (you should be able to make it look practically indentical to the original panel), make it thinner and turn on autohide. Even though I have some bad experience with the dash to panel authide feature and know this is a half baked solution. See if it works for you.

I had about 16 extensions before the last update. After I updated 2 of them became unsupported which 1 of them is already supported again if I am not mistaken. It depends on what extensions you use of course.

You can customize Gnome quite a lot if you want it just requires a bit of knowledge.

Am I dumb or Mint still uses Plasma 5 on xorg by default and its wayland support is mediocre?

With the latest 47 release I think the fractional scaling got to the point where it’s a perfectly usable in almost all cases. I use it on 125% and don’t see any blurred apps or glitches or anything like that.

VS code is technically not open-source since it has many proprietary blobs on top. VScodium is the fully open-source version.

I don’t know how much can Revanced be considered open-source except for their Revanced manager app since you still use the patched versions of the proprietary Google apps.

Sorry for being pedantic.