cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/55281333
How’s it so far? Based on your experience, do you feel it gave you more benefits than a regular Pixel can give?
For someone who’s only using apps from Fdroid and not signing in to Playstore, do you think it’s worth the change?
P.S. I found GOS community in Lemmy but they seem to have disabled posting.
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I’ve been pretty happy so far. You definitely need to be willing to tinker with settings…I had a hell of a time getting RCS chats to work but other than that it is great. Also I did not go 100% google free
Wholeheartedly worth it.
The project head is certifiably paranoid and insufferable, and the dev community is also insufferable, but it is a solid product.
I have enjoyed it. I get most apps from fdroid, but a selected few from play, so its nice to have it sandboxed.
Totally worth it, for me it wasn’t all about security & privacy, also having control over the device I paid for…
it feels very similar to stock pixel os but with an emphasis on security and user control, which I appreciate. I don’t recommend f droid on graphene though due to security issues, and grapheneos themselves even recommend against it. ideally I’d recommend grapheneos with obtanium or sandboxed Google play store.
GrapheneOS is a smooth, easy upgrade from stock firmware, with little to no issue.
There’s the occasional bug that comes up, usually associated with certain GAPPS not liking their sandboxing. Recently, RCS has gone down like twice in the last year due to tweaks on Google’s end that GOS sorted relatively quickly.
Personally, I’m less concerned with the security, and more concerned with the privacy. It is nice to completely deprive apps of network access, and set up secondary profiles that have no background permissions to house… peskier apps.
With permissions dialed in, my phone is smoother and the battery lasts longer than it did on stock firmware because I can more easily lock apps down.
GrapheneOS? Honestly, not all that different. The benefits are mostly invisible.
If that’s your use case then yes, categorically yes. I used it on a pixel 10 and the only annoying thing was no google wallet support. I got around this using curve pay. Other than that, I can think of any reason not to use it. It was, in fact, the only reason I wanted a pixel in the first place.
I’ve heard of Curve Pay before, but it just looks like any other tap-to-pay data harvesting app.
What’s the appeal of that over Google Wallet (outside of not being Google)?
I could be wrong but I think the appeal is that it allows NFC payments on Graphene OS
Ohhhhhh. Neat.
graphene?
i have it on my pixel tablet. all of the google/play store stuff is sandboxed. if youre worried abt privacy its the way to go.
havent noticed any downsides at all. probably switched in june.
