Based on our record, CalyxOS should be more popular than DivestOS. It has been mentiond 190 times since March 2021. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.
For example https://androidauthority.com/grapheneos-3287030/ > "Even if you stomach the Pixel-only requirement" I have not and will not stomach that at all, nope! https://grapheneos.org/faq#supported-devices Nope! I wasn't paying attention, but if I remember, Alphabet/Google was funded to deploy/release Android operating system, and they also were financed to deploy some hardware phones before disappearing to let... - Source: Hacker News / about 2 months ago
I'm sure you did your research. I'm writing for other readers who are interested. There are a few alternatives, more can be found but this is a selection of the most prominent offerings. /e/OS: https://e.foundation/e-os/ GrapheneOS: https://grapheneos.org/ LineageOS: https://lineageos.org/ CalyxOS: https://calyxos.org/ PostmarketOS (based on Alpine Linux rather than Android): https://postmarketos.org/ (for some... - Source: Hacker News / 5 months ago
Ironically, Pixels are the best for de-Googling. GrapheneOS requires a Pixel, as does CalyxOS for the most part. If you don't want your money going to Google, a used/refurb Pixel gets around that in my opinion. Source: 10 months ago
Oh I see makes sense, one closed system needs another 😅 but if you look at Android, look at https://grapheneos.org/ and https://calyxos.org/. Source: 11 months ago
I agree with your point, but wanted to ask, have you considered using a device with a degoogled AOSP-based OS like GrapheneOS or CalyxOS? Source: 12 months ago
DivestOS is a slightly modified Lineage version that officially supports relocking on some phones (in contrast with Lineage, which I think can be relocked but explicitly tells users not to do that). It also has sandboxed implementations of both official Google services — ported from Graphene, I think – and microG. I'm using it with microG, bootloader relocked, and it seems to pass SafetyNet this way – at... - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago
Mulch System WebView (version 584516401): Security oriented WebView. Source: 8 months ago
A step up in terms of privacy would be DivestOS but the only time that I tried to install it didn't boot and I didn't have time to troubleshoot why, but that's a really nice project that I would look again in the future. Source: about 1 year ago
Mulch System WebView (version 561513603): Security oriented WebView. Source: about 1 year ago
If CalyxOS stops supporting a Pixel, the next best OS is DivestOS. It provides additional hardening that CalyxOS doesn't but it doesn't support microG. Source: about 1 year ago
GrapheneOS - GrapheneOS is an open source privacy and security focused mobile OS with Android app compatibility.
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e.foundation /e/ - /e/ is a fork of LineageOS that aims to be completely free of everything Google.
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