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I have a Nexus 6P Android phone. Its security support ends in about half a year. It's in perfectly good shape, and I have no performance or other problems. I am happy with the phone. I would prefer to not have to change the hardware, but I don't want to be without security support, either. This is a dilemma Google has created for me.
I could put a third party variant of Android on the phone, but that seems like becoming a sysadmin on yet another computer.
Whinge whinge. Rant rant.
@liw LineageOS and done :-)
@alienghic @liw I made a clean slate when moving from Cyanogen to LineageOS, also installing TWRP. With TWRP, updating works like a charm.
@liw this is why it's important to separate responsibility for the layers of the stack.
HW support is *mostly* up front then, and the middle layers can be updated over time much more easily. That's where most of the SW bugs are anyway.
Not saying that's perfect though, but allows more choices. For instance on Ubuntu Phone the Libertine tool had to support chroots and LXC because some of the HW packages didn't have new enough kernels with all the namespacing features LXC needed.