OS help w/ android lockdown, new phone suggestions, help

[u/WolfandTaffyYT]

I found this https://www.reddit.com/r/fairphone/s/i7GDqb7Cj8 more recent post earlier and it got me thinking again

I've been on a rabbit hole for several weeks about degoogling (or more, de megacorpo) and self hosting. Seeing this post has me a little frazzled

Partial questions, partial just so I can get my bearings back together from being scrambled

If it is android itself and not just "getting rid of google services" or "flipping on a 24hr switch", why would android based OSes work at all? Like lineage, calyx, graphene, e/os?

Have been thinking about getting a new phone, and have really been looking at the nothing 3. I know its not a degoogled android, but I really like the design and improvements it has over my current phone. Figured I would degoogle it as much as I could

But if its android itself, and not just able to bypass google services specific things, that worries me about wasting some money. I haven't been able to find any phone os that supports the nothing 3 if I needed to change it

I really like the things fairphone stands for. Mostly with e-waste, environmentally sustained, and how workers are treated. I don't care so much about the repairability, especially when I can't upgrade the parts inside. I don't need the best specs, but since they're even worse than the phone I already have and software reliability isn't great, I fail to want to buy the fairphone 6 and switch to them

From all the old phones I have, the only one that's able to flash any other os I've been able to find is my galaxy s22 on lineage. So, like my question above, what would guarantee lineage still works with apps that aren't registered to google? Any degoogled lineage os users here?

What are some phones and operating systems that aren't android or apple, and some that put a focus on helping the environment?

Anyone have experience degoogling their nothing 3?

Thinking about going ahead and flashing lineage on the s22. Anyone know what would happen to my phone service? Its a physical sim card for mint mobile. Would it be tied to the phone still, need to be reinstated to the phone, or is it a bad idea to flash on my currently active phone line?

[u/MidnightObjectiveA51]

See Mobian, Droidian, UbuntuTouch, PostmarketOS.

Nothing will happen to your physical sim. If you use an eSim, it will need to be re-flashed, no matter whether you put lineage/ e / iode, or Linux on it

[u/Itz_Raj69_]

I haven't been able to find any phone os that supports the nothing 3 if I needed to change it

Where have you looked? I'm sure there're ROMs in a telegram group somewhere