| ▲ | jona-f 3 hours ago | ||||||||||||||||
I bought a used Pixel 6 for cheap to try out grapheneos. Can't say I like it. UX of lineageos is much better. There is a weird russian doll kind of situation with the package managers going on. There is one builtin "App Store" with only a few basis programs, one of which is another package manager, accrescent, which offers a few more apps, but still not comprehensive at all, so another package manager is needed for which grapheneos people seem to favor obtainium over f-droid, which I find is another strange decision. I much prefer a fully OSS package manager and there is real value in having people compile from the sources externally, maybe even reproducibly so, instead of trusting the github packages. The grapheneos security model seems oddly centralized to me. I can't really comment on the reported privacy and security benefits. | |||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | gruez 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] | ||||||||||||||||
> so another package manager is needed for which grapheneos people seem to favor obtainium over f-droid, which I find is another strange decision So just download f-droid yourself? Why the fixation on having a definitive, preloaded app store? >I much prefer a fully OSS package manager and there is real value in having people compile from the sources externally, maybe even reproducibly so, instead of trusting the github packages. Operating an app store is almost as much work as maintaining an Android fork, and it's hard to fault the authors for not sinking massive amounts of effort into doing it, when there's already f-droid, play store (plus aurora store), obtanium, and many others. | |||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | subscribed 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | ||||||||||||||||
App store is about as much as you need to decide what to do/where to go for the apps. Out of the box it has only a launcher and the minimal OS. All the minimalist needs. If you want more, you get to decide where to go for that. I call it empowering users, you call it inconvenience, but maybe in that case it's not the best OS for you? | |||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | NewJazz 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | ||||||||||||||||
I'm really glad calyxos is starting up again. Grapheneos has a lot of cool technical implementation but there are a lot of things that Calyx seems to do in a simpler, more vanilla Android manner. | |||||||||||||||||
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