thinking about paying $500 for a pixel 6 to nuke it and install either lineage or graphene. Main reasons: security, I want to degoogle, hate bloatware, I want complete freedom to choose what apps I want on my device, smartphones are notoriously known for their short support cycles (to me 4 years is not enough).
what I don’t know is why graphene developers have chosen proprietary hardware from what has to be one of the most foss unfriendly companies
To staty: GrapheneOS devs chose the Pixel line because of the Tensor chip (to my knowledge)
I have used both LineageOS and GrapheneOS. I like both for very different reasons. Whichever option you choose should depends on your usecase/needs.
I liied the idea of GrapheneOS and the privacy/securiry features it has. However, there were thing’s I missed about LineageOS. I don’t “need” root access, but i have it with LineageOS. I have it mainly for AdAway and a handful of Magisk modules.
Your mileage may vary. I suggest giving both a try if you don’t specifically know your usecase/needs.
Both have separate specific use cases I would argue.
I have been using GrapheneOS on a 7 Pro since the start of the year and it’s been great.
Similar to you I’m trying to degoogle. I’ve got Google Play Services installed only in a secondary profile which isn’t allowed to run in the background. So it’s only ever able to run when I absolutely need it. Down to only one app now that requires it, so can hopefully remove it completely soon.
On my primary profile I do still have a few Google apps. Namely Google Camera (GrapheneOS is still in the process of getting full parity with it) and GBoard (haven’t found a open source one I like as much yet). Both of them I’ve denied any network access, so they can’t do any tracking at all.
I haven’t had any stability issues since I switched. The updates have been pretty frequent and very seamless.
Have you tried HeliBoard yet? It’s a newish fork of openboard and has support for glide-typing.
Thank you for the suggestion. This keyboard seems great. Giving it a shot, though I think I am lost as to how to add glide typing. But I’ll read the github. Edit: Github had my answer.
Pixel 6, works like a charm, easy to install, frequent updates and feels like a better version of android.
frequent updates and feels like a better version of android.
why is this relevant if I plan to nuke the device and install graphene or lineage on it?