Wow LineageOS really is a bazaar, and not a cathedral.
* 74% of installs are unofficial builds, not ones released by LineageOS.
* 2/3 of US installs are on non-phones (waydroid, nintendo switch, rpi, etc)
* Most of the installs on actual phones are in China, Brazil and Vietnam
* Less than 21% of installs are on versions that receive security updates, and less than 9% of installs are on the latest version (mostly because device's binary blobs don't support newer android versions?)
dahrkael 23 minutes ago [-]
the LineageOS teams refuses to incorporate patches to support MicroG as a replacement for Google Services so anyone (including me) that wants to follow that path is required to use unofficial builds.
onli 8 minutes ago [-]
They stopped that malpractice a while ago (last year?). Signature spoofing is now possible, so microG should work.
But they really hurt their credibility with the prior stance, and that their subreddit still has rules forbidding almost all discussions - interpreted as just closing all questions regarding blocked topics, like rooting, microG, Volte - is still a stain on an otherwise great project.
burningChrome 2 hours ago [-]
>> 74% of installs are unofficial builds, not ones released by LineageOS.
One of the first versions of LineageOS I used was Evolution X on my Moms old OnePlus phone since it wasn't supported by the "official" Lineage version. Great track record of almost daily updates, and the customization you could do with it was phenomenal. The funny thing was I was running Ubuntu Touch on it before and it was super sluggish (totally not expecting that tbh) so switched to Evolution and suddenly the same phone was really snappy and the battery lasted for almost two days.
But yeah, I'm not surprised many installs are just branched versions of the original since many of them you can run on phones that aren't supported by the official version.
notatoad 3 hours ago [-]
i'm not sure all those "installs on actual phones" in china are real - 107k installs all on the same device, vs ~30k installs on the next most popular device. and 150k devices on an unknown carrier. is the Xiaomi Mi 8 really that popular for lineageOS, or is this some measurement artifact or common emulation setup?
rickdeckard 14 minutes ago [-]
The Xiaomi Mi 8 was the fastest-selling Xiaomi device of all time, it's estimated to have sold more than 20 Million units.
It was so crucial to Xiaomi's userbase that they supported it with updates for almost 8 (!) years.
So yeah, sounds feasible...
darkwater 23 minutes ago [-]
I have an Mi 9 SE with Lineage and it's pretty well supported so the Mi 8 might just be as well...
ulfw 5 minutes ago [-]
Likely phones used in massive phone centres
seba_dos1 2 hours ago [-]
> non-phones (waydroid
Some Waydroid installations are on phones.
SahAssar 39 minutes ago [-]
Given how uncommon x86 phones are (a few asus, lenovo, etc. that did not sell well) I think it's clear the vast majority of waydroid_x86_64 are not phones, right?
seba_dos1 24 minutes ago [-]
To get to 2/3 of US installs, you have to sum all this stuff up including waydroid_arm64.
adithyassekhar 2 hours ago [-]
It’s quite hard to be official.
28304283409234 22 minutes ago [-]
Note that these stats are based on opt-in data gathering.
RajT88 59 minutes ago [-]
PSA: LineageOS has some unofficial builds which works on earlier gen Amazon devices. I turned an Echo Show from an annoying ad machine into the device a Chumby always could have been.
Cider9986 19 minutes ago [-]
Dipper is the Xiaomi Mi 8
yjftsjthsd-h 3 hours ago [-]
Wow, that's not the distribution I expected; waydroid beats any other version... Though I guess that's not apples-apples since it aggregates any physical device running waydroid... And also I didn't expect unofficial builds to be so popular.
poisonborz 2 hours ago [-]
Wonder how much of those Waydroid installs are from scam farms. I can imagine some legit uses, but not this amount.
Cider9986 50 minutes ago [-]
I'd be impressed if emulators are winning against big-tech in the spam wars. But perhaps there's spam uses that don't require the best antidetection.
If emulators worked, what's the point of those giant phone farms?
I don't know anything about this, so take it with a grain of salt.
I am just under the impression that a cheap real android is the fastest cheapest way to get a trustworthy-looking device for spamming purposes.
goodpoint 2 hours ago [-]
That's really depressing.
m1keil 3 hours ago [-]
TIL waydroid...
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* 74% of installs are unofficial builds, not ones released by LineageOS.
* 2/3 of US installs are on non-phones (waydroid, nintendo switch, rpi, etc)
* Most of the installs on actual phones are in China, Brazil and Vietnam
* Less than 21% of installs are on versions that receive security updates, and less than 9% of installs are on the latest version (mostly because device's binary blobs don't support newer android versions?)
But they really hurt their credibility with the prior stance, and that their subreddit still has rules forbidding almost all discussions - interpreted as just closing all questions regarding blocked topics, like rooting, microG, Volte - is still a stain on an otherwise great project.
One of the first versions of LineageOS I used was Evolution X on my Moms old OnePlus phone since it wasn't supported by the "official" Lineage version. Great track record of almost daily updates, and the customization you could do with it was phenomenal. The funny thing was I was running Ubuntu Touch on it before and it was super sluggish (totally not expecting that tbh) so switched to Evolution and suddenly the same phone was really snappy and the battery lasted for almost two days.
But yeah, I'm not surprised many installs are just branched versions of the original since many of them you can run on phones that aren't supported by the official version.
It was so crucial to Xiaomi's userbase that they supported it with updates for almost 8 (!) years.
So yeah, sounds feasible...
Some Waydroid installations are on phones.
If emulators worked, what's the point of those giant phone farms?
I don't know anything about this, so take it with a grain of salt.
I am just under the impression that a cheap real android is the fastest cheapest way to get a trustworthy-looking device for spamming purposes.