[jeroenhd]

Xiaomi makes great hardware for the price but the software is simply terrible. I would not recommend buying their hardware if you come from a high end Samsung or iPhone and expect to be able to debloat it easily without wiping the entire thing and installing something like LineageOS.

I've bought a Mi 9 which had a similar price to features ratio in the hope the it'd become popular with the LineageOS community so I could run the latest and greatest open source ROM (it didn't) and the phone is pretty great.. . except for the terrible Xiaomi software. Nothing quite makes a premium piece of hardware feel cheap like a shitty "storage cleaner" application and ads (which you can disable, luckily) built right into the OS.

I'll probably buy Xiaomi again because of the hardware value for money, but this time I'll probably wait until LineageOS support is there officially instead if just hoping someone will add it eventually.

[lostmsu]

I had lots of luck with https://github.com/phhusson/treble_experimentations/wiki on Mi Max 3. In general any recent phone should work with these ROMs.

On Mi Max 3 it works perfectly with only a few tweaks after flashing.

https://github.com/phhusson/treble_experimentations/issues/1...

This one, and one more for Bluetooth audio

[morsch]

Fingerprint reader: Works Broken on Always on Display (turn screen on first)

Kind of a big deal. Do you still need to apply to unlock your own device and hope they let you?

[southerntofu]

> Kind of a big deal.

That the fingerprint reader doesn't work is a feature, not a bug. Fingerprints are the worst passwords, as they are easily obtained/faked and cannot be changed.

This tendency to embed biometric sensors in consumer devices is hurting users and hurting security. Only cops and psychopaths find any sort of advantage in that.

[lostmsu]

Last time I checked it still was required.

[zozbot234]

It's not required on A-series devices (A1, A2, A2-Lite, A3). But the latest device in that line is the Mi A3 from mid-2019, and there's no official news of further releases so far.

[greatgib]

The sad thing is that, a big interest of the first Xiaomi (MIUI) phones was that you had a kind of bloat free and feature full OS. But it all changed when they started to offer android one.