Android 12 is where they started making everything worse with the quick action and settings redesign, and it’s been going downhill since.
Android 12 is where they started making everything worse with the quick action and settings redesign, and it’s been going downhill since.
android 11 is more like win10, it has lots of built in bs that can mostly be mitigated. i’d say win7 = android 7~8, and 4.1~4.4 for xp…
i’m still rocking android 11, never upgrading… hopefully i can switch to a linux phone before this gets unusable
Quite possibly. I don’t think I have anything running below A11 that still functions so that’s been my baseline. Most recent was my OP3 that had LineageOS’s A9 but the battery finally gave up the ghost a few months ago.
Is this “insecure” or something? Like why are we at android 16 and is it mandatory?
I mean you can say it’s “insecure” since Google stopped providing security patches. I don’t really care much tho, I don’t keep confidential stuff on my phone, I’m not that much of a valuable target and I’ll be pwned anyway if I get targeted due to bad opsec. I’d say my phone running Android 11 with root and everything is much more “private” than most normal Android 16 phones since I have stuff like AdAway and AfWall. Android 11 still works for most apps, I’ve never seen anything not supported.
Thanks for the rundown. I’m starting to trust (and want) updates less and less so I might consider doing this.