CalyxOS is also really good.
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Get familiar with F-droid, ZapStore, Aurora, and Obtainium for package management. Use only open source, private keyboard programs. Isolate your corporate world from your crypto sovereign world on there. Graphene has great sandboxing and security features for that.
Calyx is having some weird dev stuff happening, and may not get updates for months. Be careful.
https://calyxos.org/news/2025/08/01/a-letter-to-our-community/
Great now I have to make ANOTHER backup phone setup?
Worth it.
I've been using custom roms since Android 4, cyanogen, lineage, etc. The only one I consider now is Graphene.
What makes Graphene more trustworthy than Calyx? Is it because the lead developer is an obsessed autist? I mean that is usually a good sign 😂
Is it that Calyx depends too much on corporate code?
Does seedvault offer an easy transition to Graphene?
- Ease of install and use.
- Consistent updates.
- Great community on the forums.
- It has a long history of being secure and stable.
- It consistently performs the best vs Cellebrite.
- Their security patches regularly get accepted upstream into Android main.
- Doesn't rely on weird 3rd party stuff for Google access, instead sandboxes Google Play.
I like weird 3rd party Google replacements but other than that, pretty solid. I'm gonna distro hop and see what I like best. Looks like I need to use Graphene for a while anyway because of the Calyx thing going on. Thanks!
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