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by freedomben 833 days ago
It's pretty easy to install using the web installer. Even the "manual" command-line install is really not bad. If you've never used adb before there might be some snags, but there's tons of places online to get help.

As a daily driver, it's very mature and stable. The only downside for me is just a discovery of how much of the Google apps I use and how much they improve the stock experience. The biggest example for me was the keyboard (including speech to text). Thankfully (and something I give credit to Google for as they could make this hard or impossible), you can install most or all of those apps, including the Pixel Camera app, so you don't really have to give up much.

One important thing to note with Graphene is that they prioritize security, which is a little different than many ROMs in the past. For example, they highly discourage rooting due to its security implications, whereas in the past many ROMs came with root out of the box.