I’m going to attempt to kindly countermand this, there is a web installer for chrome based browsers that I believe anyone intelligent enough to navigate the fediverse can step through easily enough.
The base install with play services enabled is a stock android experience all things considered; the extra features and additional security are there for those that want to engage with it.
I’ve done this with an old Pixel (partly to wipe the phone, and partly as a hope that if it’s refurbished/resold, the new owner will have Graphene). If you can read and follow a recipe, it’s virtually stupid-proof. I don’t remember having to know anything for which the directions didn’t specify or offer explicit directions.
I did this my my new pixel 8 pro. I loved it.
It was so easy, it worked, I was in control of my device.
Contactless payment didn’t work.
Which is a deal breaker for me.
I looked at some fin-tech solutions, I even bought a pixel watch (which didnt work because I have a workspace account). None of them let me work around the issue. Contactless just wouldn’t work.
Had to go back to stock android.
I’m constantly checking in on their attribution/verification/whatever status that would allow them to offer contactless payment (currently offered by android/apple/banks, but no open source software).
I want grapheneos and contactless so badly!
Graphene is still Android, which is only tangentially Linux at this point. PostmarketOS is more a proper Linux phone (there are a few others but that one seems to be the most along version to date). It does boot on certain models but even the best ones are a bit finicky still.
Yeah, if you have a Pixel, GrapheneOS looks to be the least complicated, but it’s still daunting. I haven’t tried it yet.
I’m going to attempt to kindly countermand this, there is a web installer for chrome based browsers that I believe anyone intelligent enough to navigate the fediverse can step through easily enough.
The base install with play services enabled is a stock android experience all things considered; the extra features and additional security are there for those that want to engage with it.
That is my push to get you going. =)
I’ve done this with an old Pixel (partly to wipe the phone, and partly as a hope that if it’s refurbished/resold, the new owner will have Graphene). If you can read and follow a recipe, it’s virtually stupid-proof. I don’t remember having to know anything for which the directions didn’t specify or offer explicit directions.
I did this my my new pixel 8 pro. I loved it.
It was so easy, it worked, I was in control of my device.
Contactless payment didn’t work.
Which is a deal breaker for me.
I looked at some fin-tech solutions, I even bought a pixel watch (which didnt work because I have a workspace account). None of them let me work around the issue. Contactless just wouldn’t work.
Had to go back to stock android.
I’m constantly checking in on their attribution/verification/whatever status that would allow them to offer contactless payment (currently offered by android/apple/banks, but no open source software).
I want grapheneos and contactless so badly!
That is a kind gesture to the new owner, good on you!
I echo Hominine’s comments - the most difficult part of installing GrapheneOS is getting your hands on Pixel hardware (for a good price).
Graphene is still Android, which is only tangentially Linux at this point. PostmarketOS is more a proper Linux phone (there are a few others but that one seems to be the most along version to date). It does boot on certain models but even the best ones are a bit finicky still.