So I gave my younger brother my OnePlus One since he is now using an even older Google Nexus and don't care much for phones. The camera is slightly better basically.

Asked him to test drive it:

Me: so did you set it up yet?
B: nope, what's the rush?
Me: well you see it's running a custom OS (Lineage) as it technically doesn't support it. You need to test drive it and make sure it works with your SIM? May need to change some configs
B: sounds like a pain, should I just get a new phone?

Me: ... yes probably...

He's a just graduated CS major that doesn't like tinkering with tech...

(Well can I have it back then so I can play around with it?)

I can sympathize with him. I always keep both a production and a testing machine around. The production machine I keep running a vanilla unmodified long-term support release of Ubuntu and my test machine is where I try out and tweak stuff. I don't do the same with my phone but I also personally would not take the risk of running an unsupported operating system on that.

I just can't afford for one of my mission critical machines to break and not have time for me to fix it.

I also don't bother tinkering with my phone.
Am I not "true" enough for you?

@DuckyMcDuckFace will it's supported by open source, you just need to learn how to unlock the bootloader and live with a Dev/not as Stable build but you get a lot more control and less bloatware.

@BigBoo well it's sort of a metaphor. There are devs that are good at doing 1 thing and some that are good at figuring things out and the latter I guess is what I mean by tinkerer l, playing around with things and see how far you can go/make it so what you want

In the end, it would've been another project for him to support

@billgates I don't really follow your logic. I want email, texts, gps, music and phonecalls on my phone. Pretty much any phone will do.

But according to your logic, I can't figure things out because I don't have the same priorities as you? What the fuck.

@psukys true... But he would be superuser and learn about rooting, flashing, and TWRP (I basically just wiped the data partitions so the users reset, not sure if it removed root).

Maybe it's a mindset and that was my bigger point. (I work with devs that don't code very well and they just do their jobs writing barely passable and super messy code that I usually have to fix...)

I always want to be admin... Did jailbreaking too but to much of a pain... Actually he unjailbroke my iPad because he wanted to play a game that needed a upgraded to OS... Which he did... Broke the whole system and crippled the whole thing which we now know Apple does on purpose to "maintain battery life"

I do have to say jailbreaking is a pain... Feels really like Apple works against them.

Android and rooting is: if you know what you're doing, go ahead.

@billgates being supported by open-source doesn't do much for me. I can't call open source and get a replacement phone sent in 24 hours.

@DuckyMcDuckFace no you would just need to reflash the stock OS. I'm saying the custom ROM is fairly stable with a lot more features except maybe a few minor quirks you need to work around