Hey dear smart community, I don’t use any Google products or services over 3 years now. Always had android and used fdroid. No apps for banking ( cash lover). Osmand for maps. Extremely happy to find this app for socializing with like minded people. Now I feel time has come to upgrade privacy and security and custom ROM phone. I am considering if getting pixel8 and installing GOS. The only issue is,that I have 0 (ZERO) knowledge about how to do it. I have looked many videos and read on websites how to do it,but I am so afraid that I will not be able. I don’t know if that is right to ask for assistance from people here,but I don’t feel like I am capable of doing so. Plus,I have samsung which I would like to prepare and give my friend to use. Unfortunately, that person in immersed to Google world ( internet banking apps ect). Do you think LineageOS could give more protection and same smooth usage of phone ? I will appreciate any suggestions how to custom ROM phones. Best wishes to all.
I’ve used both Graphene and e/OS (based on Lineage), ime they have one thing that they do better than the other. Graphene comes with more granular privacy controls, and e/OS comes with tor connectivity built into the OS itself (“hide my IP” option). Both are daily driver capable phones and I like them both.
Just make sure to set up a firewall as well if you want to keep unnecessary shit from connecting to the internet, as neither of them allows you to block all of the bloatware out of the box (but you can block more of it using Graphene).