GrapheneOS is not quite "without" Android but it's without what makes it bad (Google) and works fine for me. I hear LineageOS is ok too.

I love GrapheneOS, but note that it only runs on Google Pixels. But that's what I chose for the smartphone.

Hopefully GrapheneOS will soon be supported by a non-US phone...

Note that Google Pixel hardware is just fine and not evil, and they're looking at a different vendor for the next version anyway, because Google is making it so the Pixel will only run approved OSes.

You mean the Pixel hardware that employs a proprietary black-box security chip that they pinky-promised to open source but never did?

Oh no! A TPM without a driver! How can I trust any device that has a TPM I don't have a driver for?

The Titan chip does a lot more than sign and store keys. It also has storage (could contain malicious payloads) as well as an RNG and AES/SHA accelerators (which could be weakened/compromised), among other things.

As someone who had been in the Apple ecosystem since Windows XP, it was difficult to lose that constant seamless interplay between my phone and computer. But honestly? The trade-off was worth it in the end. I’m 8mo into Linux-only desktop and man…it’s great.

Look into KDE Connect¹ - it provides some of that seamless experience. It even has some basic support for syncing between iOS and Gnome, but it's originally designed for seamless integration between Android and KDE's plasma desktop.

1. https://kdeconnect.kde.org/

I use it some but it’s just not the same. Very useful and well built don’t get me wrong.

Works on macOS and Windows, too.

Fairphone with Graphene

Graphene only runs on Pixel phones

I really like my Fairphone. I would but their next model if it grapheneos was available.

BSD is great on desktop now! I'm on it too.