Ubuntu Touch is drastically less private and secure than AOSP let alone GrapheneOS. Volla's devices don't come anywhere close to meeting the update and security requirements for GrapheneOS. GrapheneOS is a Linux distribution much closely following along with the Linux kernel LTS releases, unlike those devices. It also regularly moves to new Linux kernel LTS branches. Pixels are in the process of moving to the 6.12 LTS branch with Android 17 QPR2. 6.18 is currently in the early stage of stabilization.
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Freedom to get a stroke from an incomplete toy OS?
Snark aside, desktop Linux userspace (or gnu Linux, call it how you want) is nowhere near production ready. And even for the more general point, giving out root willy-nilly is not more freedom. It's more like letting your child play on the 5th floor of a half-constructed building that's about to be exploded. Your kid can enjoy their time just as much in the safe forest trail.
Not everything needs to be "production ready". And giving out root willy-nilly is freedom. It's my device, I should get to decide how I want to use it and not have artificial restrictions put on my be by someone else. If I want to rm -rf /, I should be able to do just that.
You can, but maybe don't make it an easy to accidentally invoke default.
Like even `rm` added a flag to not do that without explicitly asking.
Also, there are plenty of immutable OSs now among Linux distros, are they also limiting your freedom?
How can you be free when you're not private or secure?
Grapheneos is fully open source and comes with 0 Google services.
>so called "security"
Grapheneos is widely recognized as one of the most secure operating systems.
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You can't have privacy without security.
That is a vague, meaningless statement. What sort of privacy are we taking about? What sort of security? What's the target? What's the attack vector? What's the environment? What's your threat model?
Without all of those details, your statement is meaningless.