What is the best rom for a Pixel phone? I can't decide between Lineage, Copperhead, and Graphene... #security #android #roms #digitalsecurity #privacy #pixel #google #privacyrights
@ben_dw GrapheneOS 100% if you're looking for security and privacy. You can't root it or install an app store (well you can install F-Droid but you can't give it system-level access to auto-update) but IMO those are good things, just a bit less convenient.
If you're only looking to escape Google and actual security is less of a concern for you Lineage is probably fine, and a lot more customizable, if you're into Android mods.
@jonah
Fair! Should I be concerned that the Pixel 1 won't get security updated after October 2019!
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@ben_dw @jonah You only need to be concerned about that if you stick with the stock Android. LineagesOS based ROMs will certainly get updates far beyond the Google cut-off date, as long as there is an active maintainer. Check out the /e/ ROM from e.foundation, I have found they provide updates to their LineageOS based ROM even after official LineageOS maintainers loose interest and stop updates.
@supernova @ben_dw this is actually mostly untrue and it’s one of the most annoying things about Lineage IMO. Lineage will port in AOSP security patches, but most security patches for devices are actually device-specific (like firmware patches) and Lineage in general makes 0 effort to include them. So the security patch level reported is misleading because it either isn’t what you’d expect, or on some occasions manually set higher when there haven’t been ANY security patches at all.
@supernova @ben_dw
In fact, most (all?) of the time they don’t even include them with ROMs with devices still receiving device security patches. IIRC even on Pixel devices the security patch level doesn’t include device-specific patches even though Google releases them for free.
