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(translated) Everyone has a phone. Whether it’s an iPhone, where you can’t install a better YouTube Music client without ads, or an Android, where you have pre-installed apps from three different manufacturers plus ads for new phones popping up as notifications. Anyone who reads my articles regularly knows what I’m talking about. Today, after a very long time, we’re going to review a phone from Google, on which I installed GrapheneOS.
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just spreading misinformation. Dont make such a comment if you know nothing.
This thread explains why microG is not used and why with microG the properteary google libraries are still used https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/10793-clarification-about-microg-what-is-it-is-it-insecure/24
e/os lags behind security and privacy patches, more info in this thread https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/24134-devices-lacking-standard-privacysecurity-patches-and-protections-arent-private
CalyxOs currently does not even get updates at all https://calyxos.org/news/2025/08/01/a-letter-to-our-community/ https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/24791-departure-of-calyx-calyxos-leadership-and-discontinuation-of-calyxos-updates
And LineageOS is just not secure aswell, but i dont know much about this one besides that 🤷
Most of this is false and/outdated information. CalyxOS indeed is temporarily suspended, but all of these OS that you mention and microG deserve praise for everything they do to help people be more private, deGoogle and use open source software imo
oh what exactly is false about microG? be specific. and add a source.
i wont even ask about e/os it is well know that they are behind on updates.
edit: and the other OSs dont really matter tho. I just added this to highlight how you blindly ignore glaring issued in other ones, because of some misinformed understanding of MicroG. and as a warning to others to not get them, if they have the oppertunity to get graphene.
What a weak line of argumentation. Hopes and dreams don’t matter on the face of reality.
There is a reason why Journalists, activists and whistleblowers use GrapheneOS, and it is the only OS that is recommended for such use cases. It’s the only OS that has the receipts to prove their are resistant to remote penetration breaches lfrom the likes os Pegasus and common evil maidens like Celebrite.
There are no high-risk personas using microG OSes. The ones who did are now dead.
Yes and this is indeed the target population of GrapheneOS, people with extremely high security needs. And that’s great. But my point is that such efforts come with compromises and in the case of GrapheneOS it has led to a reduced level of user friendliness for regular normal users. Which is fine, it’s all just choices. Because of those choices, GrapheneOS is not the best option in terms of deGoogling, others are better. Again this ok, you can never do everything at the same time