I am currently running Graphene OS and I am very happy with it, but I am not so happy with my Pixel phone. I am wanting to switch hardware that Graphene does not support.

Would I be losing many privacy & security advantages by switching to Lineage?

  • nomadjoanne@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    This is an old post but here are my two cents.

    LineageOS supports much more devices. It’s what I personally use. It’s security very much outclassed by that of GrapheneOS. However, to be honest I don’t care all that much. I’m not a journalist or targeted person. And I, personally, like to root and “pimp out” my device with kernel mods and the like. While all this CAN be done on GrapheneOS, it sort of defeats the purpose of having GrapheneOS. It’s supposed to be a secure, locked-down fortress.

    In short, if you want a super secure, de-Googled device, then GrapheneOS. But if you want a Googled device you can do a bit more with, and really make yours in every way, then LineageOS.

    • pipes@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      Hi people, so weird but if anyone’s reading this, I thought there was only one comment on this post, the one by @nomadjoanne, turns out there were actually way more from two months ago, but they’re invisible from my instance (sh.itjust.works)

      How could I see this one (from a lemmy.world user) but not others by users of the same instance? Anyone know of a possible explanation? Ty

    • pipes@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      1 year ago

      I agree with all this and will add that, even though what GrapheneOS team is doing is very admirable, the very fact that LOS (and automatically Lineage4microg) runs on hundreds of devices, makes the latter way more useful to a LOT of people (meaning a lot less throwaway tech too), plus not tieing you down to a single hw vendor!

      Heck, even an old enough Pixel phone that programmatically loses Graphene’s support, is still almost garanteed support from LOS for many years

      In my mind LOS is 95% of the way there, microg 97%, GOS 99%? As far as android goes, they’re all great

      • nomadjoanne@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        1 year ago

        This is why I kind of hate ARM. Amd, why on the laptop end, i have no inrention of awitching to ARM anytime soon. The inability of these SOCs to use a generic kernel is just infuriating.