Hello, making this post to get some honest, and technical opinions about GrapheneOS. Please do not be bother by this question. No drama here pls 🙏. I’ve heard that there is some of the google code into the “sandbox” feature. Say your opinion below! 👇👇

    • /home/pineapplelover@lemm.ee
      31·
      5 months ago

      Most likely talking about how the lead developer had a mental health crisis and lost his marbles. From what I’ve heard, he has stepped off to take care of that and the project is still going great.

    • Possibly linuxEnglish
      24·
      5 months ago

      They encourage proprietary software and locked down systems. For instance, they use Google play services instead of microG and they promote the play store. I personally think that F-droid apps are much better from both an software freedom perspective and a privacy perspective. I’m not against people installing proprietary apps as I realize sometimes that is unavoidable but they could at least encourage the use of Foss. Graphene could simply have both F-droid and Aurora store by default and on setup explain the difference. They could even allow the install of Play services instead. However, they don’t even really try. They focus on security which at the end of the day is subjective.

      • three@lemm.ee
        2·
        5 months ago

        Do some fucking research holy shit

        Like the Android Open Source Project, GrapheneOS doesn’t include Google apps and services. They won’t ever be bundled with the OS. GrapheneOS includes a compatibility layer for sandboxed Play services to make user installed Play services apps able to run as fully sandboxed, unprivileged apps. This is documented as part of the usage guide. Many apps work perfectly without Play services and many others only depend on it for a subset of their functionality. Users can choose to install Play services in specific profile(s) to control which apps can use it.

        https://grapheneos.org/faq#google-services