GrapheneOS vs LineageOS vs iodéOS

According to Comparison of Android-based Operating Systems, GrapheneOS seems to be better than LineageOS and iodéOS in every aspect.

I’m wondering if there is any downside of GrapheneOS. What am I giving up for using GrapheneOS instead of LineageOS and iodéOS (besides GrapheneOS only support pixel)?

In terms of privacy, security, customizability and functionality, which OS would you recommend and on what device would you recommend using it?

Answered questions

Some questions

  • Can LineageOS supports Sandboxed Google Play with some tweaks?
  • If there is backdoor planted in pixel (which in my opinion is very likely), then I guess the “risk of an adversary gaining physical access to the phone” is quite equal for both of OS?
  • @benjaminoakes https://lemmy.world/u/benjaminoakes (how do I @ another user in lemmy???) and I qoute “Graphene is likely to run into issues soon. They were relying on the AOSP source tree including Pixel-specific files. Google isn’t releasing those anymore, so GrapheneOS would have to reverse engineer or extract the needed files somehow.”
    • should I be concerned about this issue? Will it affect my experience in the next 5 years ? (I usually update my device in 5 year cycle)

thanks a million

  • FrostyPolicy@suppo.fi
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    15 hours ago

    MicroG is somewhat hacky solution that emulates play services. When you have proper play services you do have all the functionality available. Since it’s sandboxed play services don’t have any privileged access to the system thus can only access data which is available to any normal app.

    • Kami@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      15 hours ago

      Being in the Privacy community, I’d say microG is the superior solution to have the functionality you need without giving google access to your device.