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by c487bd62 2794 days ago
Don't get me wrong, I think MicroG is a great project and could work for many people. I already have to maintain a lot of Linux related stuff and I really don't want to worry about my phone too. The apps or workflow changes completely when you get rid of Google. I need to be able to trust that making the switch will be permanent, these things add up quickly (time). Death by a thousand cuts.

But if my phone fails it can put my job or even my life in risk. I can't affort to play cat and mouse with Google or the edge cases from and between MicroG and custom ROMs. I took a quick look at their issue tracker and it looks like these things still happen occasionally. As expected because no code will be good enough to fight malice in a platform you don't own.