Does anyone know how /e/os compares to graphene os for privacy? I am thinking of getting a murena fairphone which comes with /e/os but supports custom OSs and am leaning towards graphene, but don’t know much about e.
Graphene do not support fairphone, but you can use calyxos, which supports fairphone (with verified boot?), and it is more up to date.
In general, I think calyx is probably more up-to-date and secure, with vanilla android experience. /e/ has its own unique athetics, and a SSO cloud service powered by nextcloud (last time I checked, nextcloud dont have good E2EE support, so I personally avoid putting my stuff on a nextcloud server hosted by others. But it is your choice)
Yeah, looking at their (e) marketing they seem to have a lot of cloud stuff which makes me trust it less. I will probably go with calyx.
Check DivestOS, it uses a lot of things from GrapheneOS + they have crrated their own security tools and applications.
I stopped using /e/OS last year and switched to CalyxOS.
The problem I had comes probably from the fact that /e/ tries to cover as many phones as possible (almost 230 as of now) without having a big enough testing pool, so stuff would break constantly even on the “officially supported” devices. And when you pointed out your problem on their forum, the answer you met was frequently something like “the problem is in your phone model, we can’t do a lot about it”.
Calyx instead supports only Pixel phones and a couple others, including the FP4, it’s always tested for good (they have both a stable and a beta branch you can easily switch between) and their android and microG versions are usually more up to date.
Oh, and the Calyx community is one on the nicest and most helpful on the planet
I personally use calyx os and am pretty happy with it, they have a fairphone build
Love that there is a post about /e/OS!!!
After years of “degoogling” my phones, been rocking a Oneplus 6t (love this phone) with several OS’s, but found /e/OS one night and haven’t looked back.
I prefer computers to be more no nonsense and I thought that /e/OS pushed their own cloud solutions and stuff a lot. Has that been annoying for you or are they reasonable about it or am I wrong about this entirely?
Perhaps we have different needs but I’m trying to get away from my @gmail.com account. Having an alternative built into my phone (email, pictures, calendar, writer, spreadsheets and others) synced across devices as well as my computer, sounds good to me.
It is only 1gb of space, but as of now, plenty of space for my pictures. To some point, makes me not hold TONS of pictures on my phone as I delete the ones I don’t want. Can desync if needed
For additional space, yes its kinda expensive. I have a proton account as well and beard good things about them. Its just not baked into my OS
