Always happy to read about lineage. Has served me well all these years
this post was submitted on 31 Dec 2024
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I think it depends on maintainer of the device. For me personally, LineageOS has broken a basic workflow like having Signal voice/video call. None of the IM apps are able to pick audio from microphone on my device (and various other models as well) due to a bug in LineageOS for almost 6 months. I regret installing it.
You can always switch to another ~~room~~ rom :)
Sure but that won't do anything about software issues :p
Sorry, I meant ROM😅😅
As /e/ and iodé depend on Lineage, there would be no difference. Only Graphene (Pixel-only) and Calyx (critical) are directly based on AOSP and could thus make a difference
Waiting for my device maintainer to update 😁
It's also a bit irritating all rom folk are on telegram.
Yeah, right? I wish they would use matrix too
Great news and loving that they are able to update faster to newer versions.
Custom roms vs. stock Android are like Linux vs. Windows. Without them, the devices would not be as usable and powerful as they can be.
A huge Shoutout to the countless maintainers that make it possible!!!
This is a 100% noob question, I know.
But can someone who used Lineage and Graphene say why they prefer the one they do?
I'm standing between choosing one.
Graphene only works on Pixel phones. Graphene is more private and secure, but might be too many issues for people who do not care about such things that much. Lineage has better support for different phone models, and you can make it just like a normal Android OS, that just happens to provide updates for your phone years after the manufacturer stops sending them.
Neither of them is better than the other, it's just about your priorities. Get Graphene if you have a Pixel and you value privacy and are willing to tinker with it a bit if some apps don't work.
All apps work fine on GOS no tinkering needed if a app is broken its broken on linage as well because of play integrity
Lineage covers many devices but is not very privacy friendly. It does not include Google integration by default. The ßain advantage is longer software support.
Graphene is most secure and privacy friendly OS and comes with support for sandboxed GApps (optional). Unfortunately it is only made for Google Pixel devices so I'm out.
Depending on your reasons and device you could also check alternatives like /e/.
I use graphene because I just like its way stricter security features, such as randomized numbers on the keypad when unlocking and it not having any Google services by default
But if you dont care about that and you would rather use MicroG (which is a little project that still runs at root access, but dosent send as much data to google) instead of G services just being sandboxed you can just as well use linaege
Also, linaege is a Team of volunteers that maintain many phones, as grapheneOS only makes Roms for the Google Pixel Series, so all their effort is towards the pixel phones. But as far as I know Graphene only maintains the Roms for phones that are still maintained by Google themselves, only giving a year or so extended support, but I dont know how long the Maintainer(s) that support the Pixels will maintain the Rom
InfinityXOS released its Android 15 version already in November