I am using (and hating hating hating hating hating) Android. I've been watching for alternatives.

1. Cyanogen Mod: This inherits too many of Android's fatal flaws.

2. FirefoxOS: Oh well. (It's dead, Jim.)

3. Ubuntu Mobile: It's still alive, though small.

4. Windows Mobile: Not my thing.

I may head to a small-form-factor notepad. I really like the concept of a folio-format tablet + bluetooth keyboard, though nobody seems to be making a general 9-10" device. I prefer this to an integrated & hinged laptop, or a smartphone type device, especially in WiFi-only capabilities. The basic hardware of my device is acceptable. The OS, lockdown, user-hostility, surveillence, intentionally broken crap, and App store ecosystem dyfunction are irredeemable.

I have high hopes currently for Plasma Mobile - https://plasma-mobile.org/

Thanks Look really interesting.

https://jolla.com/jolla/ is still a thing

Windows Mobile has some of the issues you mentioned, but why isn't it your thing? It's a beautiful OS.

Plus your post made me a bit sad again remembering webOS. How I miss it!

1) I'm a Unix kid at heart.

2) I can't forgive Microsoft the 1980s and 1990s.

I'm leaning toward the idea that a terminal and emacs is about 99% of what I really need.

Have you heard of F-Droid?

> Cyanogen Mod: This inherits too many of Android's fatal flaws.

For example?

Is Cyanogen mod wed to google services?

The OS [mostly] doesn't matter. Google Play Services does most of the tracking job, see https://microg.org/

If you don't install GApps package, no.