Hi all, ultimately I’d like to experiment with a whole new os, but I gotta save up a little to buy a pixel. I’m currently working with a galaxy s21 ultra.
I never quite understood the reason to root and so I never really researched it. But now that I’m venturing more into the foss world and learning a bit more about tech, I’m realizing it might be useful for utilizing certain apps that require root and possibly helping to get rid of google and such services for good, but again idk the extent of what root offers and I also read it can be dangerous, so I’m lost to say the least.
My recent interest in rooting is purely because I have some foss apps that require root for me to use the full capabilities that I want. I also heard about adb and that it may be similiar to rooting but without actually rooting?
I’m just quite not sure how I should approach this and what things I should be aware of or NOT to do, to ensure I don’t end up bricking the thing lol
Thanks for reading
The act of rooting a device is essentially just giving you access to the highest user permissions, that being equivalent to the “root” user on a Linux system.
This means you get full access to the filesystem and any commands, even if they’re usually reserved to the system.
Rooting is only the act of gaining this access. There is also Custom ROMs - Custom versions of android which cater to various audiences. Most notably there’s projects like LineageOS which aims to provide a polished android distribution that works on many devices.
There’s dedicated communities around specific devices, most notably on the XDA Developers forums and Telegram.
Note that ADB is intended for app development, and whilst it does give you more permissions, it isn’t on the same level as a full root solution like Magisk.
(If you wanna follow-up privately: @tg_rush:matrix.org)