You can learn to love #GrapheneOS.
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I'm getting used to it. Definitely miss the beautiful iOS UX, but convenience is a shitcoin.
Keep going. I'm 2 years in and couldn't imagine using anything but #GrapheneOS on mobile and #Zorin on desktop.
Are you able to obtain apps that are on playstore, if developer doesn't have it available in their github (or anywhere else from what I can tell)? I use a very particular home screen replacement.
Yes.
1. Install Fdroid; this gives you access to many based open source application; https://f-droid.org/en/.
2. Inatall Aurora Store; this lets you get apps from Google Play anonymously. https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.aurora.store/
3. Use #GrapheneOS's built-in app store to install their sandboxed Google Play Services to a work profile that is off by default. This gives you an isolated area to install fiat apps, like bank apps. You can flip the work profile on in a single tap, then use apps that require google apis, then flip off. 95% of my usage does not require it so I rarely turn on the work profile.
I put CalyxOS on an old Pixel 3a with no sim, just to see how I like it. I'm not sold that it's convenient enough to be my every day phone, but it's nice to have as back up.
Graphene is great. Recently learned the stock keyboard does have emojis, you just have to hold enter to pull them up.
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