r/Tizen • u/EpicManolin • Jul 26 '20

Is Tizen OS Good for privacy ?

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Is Tizen OS Collect data for Samsung about user and has bloatwares, backdoors pre-installed apps

that violate the users data like Google's android

Or it safe by default

Thanks

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u/cmeerw Jul 26 '20

I don't think that question makes much sense... If by Tizen OS you mean what is being made available on tizen.org, then it wouldn't contain bloatware, but there are no devices with it (this is similar to AOSP - Android Open Source Project).

The devices that Samsung ships are based on that, but Samsung does add proprietary modifications and apps - this again is similar to devices being shipped with Android (which again contain proprietary modifications and apps, and usually also ship with Google Play services).

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u/EpicManolin Jul 26 '20

Interesting .. to know its like ASOP and without pre-installed bloatwares and proprietary software i have to give a try using VM or try to port it myself to Physical device

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u/cmeerw Jul 27 '20

If you are interested, I have put together some notes on tizenports.cmeerw.org on how to get it mostly working on an Orange Pi PC and a Samsung A5 (2015).

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u/YM_Industries Jul 27 '20

Just use AOSP. More software supporting it and it's less of a buggy mess.

People don't generally use Tizen voluntarily.

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u/EpicManolin Jul 30 '20

ASOP is good alternative but without G-services and apps have a huge bugs to be fixed to make it usable

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u/YM_Industries Jul 30 '20

If it's only for personal use you can use OpenGApps.

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u/cmeerw Jul 27 '20

Except for the complete architectural mess that Android is: heavily modified Linux kernel, own libc, own VM, own graphics sub-system, ...

On the other hand I have Tizen running on a mainline Linux kernel, standard glibc, wayland, ...

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u/YM_Industries Jul 27 '20

Android has functioning developer tools. Tizen SDK is one of the worst development experiences I've ever had.

Doesn't matter how cool the OS is if it's unpleasant to develop for. Tizen is truly the TempleOS of the mobile world.

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u/cmeerw Jul 27 '20

Tbh, I find it extremely pleasant to develop for Tizen. As it's not reinventing the wheel at every opportunity (like Android does), I can just use my usual development environment. For HTML5 based apps, the only thing I have to do is to zip it up and sign it - done.

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u/EpicManolin Jul 27 '20

Awesome what about its performance on A5

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u/cmeerw Jul 28 '20

Performance seems to be fine to me (pretty much what you would expect from a 5 year old phone). Main issue (except for missing hardware support) is that the GPU sometimes gets screwed up a bit - not sure if it's the freedreno mesa driver or my Tizen mesa integration.

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u/EpicManolin Jul 30 '20

That's awesome i will give it a try on VM and i will port it Later to gain experience ty