looking at alternate OSes for the fairphone, and basically i need a ton of apps on the Google Play store

annoying

android 15 just feels annoying too, but also i have my apps

i do not want a ringtone of "join us now and share the software"

so now i have to make android 15 less fucking irritating, somehow

xiaomi MIUI just didn't annoy me, this does

yes i need to be more specific to fix it

no I'm sure there's some precarious way to kludge "we have Google Play at home" into it, but no

it's like being stuck with Windows

EDIT: there are no words in the above post that are a request for a substitute OS, it's literally the opposite. stop it.

EDIT 2: and then GrapheneOS swoops in to try using this as a promotional opportunity, when they expressly don't support Fairphone https://archive.ph/lgc9I goodness me