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this is misinformation
installing a custom rom doesn't require root in fact, some custom roms advice you against it like divestos, grapheneos, calyxos and some more
Sorry if this is really basic, but what is rooting? What are the positives and negatives of it?
rooting means gaining root access of android device
in Linux file systems, root is the base folder called / and then comes other folders
like(simplified) /Downloads/boku_no_pico means boku_no_pico is in downloads folder which is inside root
so now, in traditional android based os, there are some folders which are not permitted to be accessed like system folder and rooting means gaining access to that folder, which gives you access to modifying any property of the system
some negatives are that there are some crappy services who think rooting is only/mostly done by bad actors who are trying to abuse their services (basically Netflix, bank apps) so they try to block rooted users from using their services
but these dumb big tech employees can't even do one thing properly, hiding root is really easy once you get used to it, so now bad actors can still abuse their system and honest users suffer
basically, its like gaining superuser access on Linux (sudo su)
Oops. You're right, my mistake, guess my information is a bit out of date.
no problem :)
just accepting this made me happy
have a nice day!