L3ft_F13ld!

Buy the phone second hand. Not a cent goes to Google. From my understanding, they only support the Pixel line because it’s the most secure hardware or something. Someone more knowledgable will probably explain it better though.

Just out of curiosity, what difference would PAE make in this argument? What is the memory limit on a PAE-enabled kernel? What other differences would it make?

LineageOS would probably also be a decent choice if they don’t absolutely have to have no Google at all.

Try Osmand or Organic Maps. Both available from F-droid. Magic Earth is an option if you’re using Aurora Store or downloading APKs.

They say Emacs is an amazing OS, with the best calendar, to-do list, email client, etc. Just missing a good text editor.

Honestly, what I like about it started with the mascot. Otherwise, I like the fact that the rolling release has automatic testing to make sure it’s mostly reliable. Many people will also tell you how amazing YaST, their “control panel”, is. There’s definitely some stuff to get used to, like patterns and zypper. But, for a set and forget system, it’s hard to beat IMO.

If you’re looking for stable and up to date, give openSUSE Tumbleweed a shot.

I always made sure my laptops had tlp installed. Now it seems openSUSE has cpu power profiles daemon or something by default, which it says conflicts with tlp when I tried to install it. So, I’m giving that a shot.