CalyxOS 4.13.2 - Hackdot

Re:CalyxOS 4.13.2 by rebreak on Wednesday September 20, 2023 @03:37PM (#37588993)

i honestly dont know why anyone would use Calyx when GrapheneOS exists. The amount of engineering and attention that went to GrapheneOS, Calyx utterly pales in comparison. Is it not just a glorified LineageOS / AOSP fork with a few preinstalled apps and a firewall?

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Re:CalyxOS 4.13.2 by eadmund on Wednesday September 20, 2023 @03:50PM (#37589169)

> i honestly dont know why anyone would use Calyx when GrapheneOS exists.

CalyxOS supports more models of phone than does GrapheneOS. Not a lot more, but more.

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Re:CalyxOS 4.13.2 by mcsniff on Wednesday September 20, 2023 @03:58PM (#37589294)

GrapheneOS is/was very opinionated software.

I use it on my both my daily and development devices, I understand why some people want to use CalyxOS or LineageOS forks for the flexibility they provide.

GrapheneOS is security focused and I hope it stays that way.

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Re:CalyxOS 4.13.2 by wkat4242 on Wednesday September 20, 2023 @07:29PM (#37591432)

I prefer MicroG over sandboxed Google Play. I don't use either OS currently (I use lineage-microg as I don't own a Google pixel phone) but if I did I'd prefer Calyx for that reason alone.

Another reason is that the last time I mentioned this same reason some 'strcpy' guy apparently from grapheneos came here foaming at the mouth that I was part of a conspiracy against them. Which I'm not. I just happen to like microG a lot, in particular the local and Mozilla location database options which avoid leaking my location to Google. It's not even directly related to Calyx. But that reception cemented my opinion.

But pixel phones are hard to get in my country so I don't own one. So either option is moot. LineageOS does ok anyway. Even though they also seem to hate MicroG for some reason.

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