Where's the love for Motorola? (self.linuxphones)

submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by rockSlayer to c/linuxphones@lemmy.ca

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With the recent announcement of Motorola partnering with GrapheneOS, I got curious about installing a custom rom like LineageOS or/e/OS on my Moto G Power (vegas) because I've been meaning to degoogle for a while now. As far as I can tell, Motorola has all the keys to be a primary development target: OEM supported boot unlocking, cheap devices, accessible hardware, etc. Why have their devices largely been ignored by custom ROM developers?

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[-] paper_moon@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago

I'm not a ROM developer but I had a Motorola phone and I could see why maybe it would have been ignored for custom ROMs, it had a few non-standard features that were great when using the phone, but I think a pain to support, it had a little touchpad in the bottom center that you could swipe your thumb on to do 'gestures' in android like back, recent apps, home, etc. I really liked it but its another weird feature you have to keep working when you're supporting the phone after the manufacturer stopped providing updates.

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