I Installed a Graphene-Based OS on Non-Pixel Phones… Here’s the Catch
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RjGjqBAAgQ
"I was watching youtube(Invidious) and notied RestlessOS . Have you heard of this and are there people actually tried this on non-pixel phone?
“RestlessOS is an unofficial, unaffiliated fork of GrapheneOS packaged as a Generic System Image (GSI) for Project Treble devices. It is not endorsed by, sponsored by, or in any way connected to the GrapheneOS project or its developers.”
https://github.com/cawilliamson/treble_restlessos
I’m very hesitant to give money to Google pixel so I’m going to experiment on this one."
Still better than nothing? And more privacy centric options out there are better as it gives people a way to figure out how it can fit into their life vs the all private where nothing works and you need to know tech to get around or nothing private but at least things work, world people are in.
Why are a multitude of poor options better than a few good options?
There’s this weird mix of free market capitalism and FOSS philosophy that says more and shallower forks = better ecosystem.
Not commenting on this OS specifically, but just questioning your blase assertions that more options is better. Maybe it would be have been better to invest more time into an existing project.
There are a few issues with there being… a single ideal privacy option line of devices (the Pixels):
Having more vendor choice drastically lowers these negatives. And I can’t really think of any negatives for the other side than increased dev time and operating costs.
Having the privacy features trickle down to other devices is great since some already landed in AOSP.
However, the trickle down is slow (and often a myth). And some protection is better than no protection.
Is anything other than a Pixel a poor option?
They may be suboptimal but… Some hardening is definitely better than no hardening any day of the week.
What actively blocking “okay” or even “good” options when “the perfect” one exists should be plainly obvious.
Privacy-consciousness will never spread. Which also has negative effects on the privacy-conscious. Namely point 3 of my little list.
Wasn’t GOS working with other company to have a second brand that could use GOS? These dudes are nkt stupid and i think they too realuse that relying only on pixels is risky business. I read somewhere that, its not about GOS, the phone or whatever but its about what you need to have so that you can call it a secure phone. The GOS folks have done their homework and concluded that only pixels have what is needed. Whay intreagues me is that the biggest surveilance machine out there built the most secure hardware. Why did they do it?
because you see it wrong. it is not poor just because it is not shiny polished perfect. it is still an improvement over the factory rom, and if the maintainer is trustworthy then it’s an improvement over lineage os too.
How is one unknown maintainer of a project that adds nothing to the one it forked from, better than many well-known LineageOS maintainers?
People make do with what they have.
It would be ideal if everyone had access to the “best” options, so a single approach makes sense, but we don’t live in an ideal world.