| > Is it very challenging to install Graphene OS? It's very easy to install with the web installer. https://grapheneos.org/install/web You can buy a device with it, but nearly anyone can use the web installer. It's particularly easy to use from Android, ChromeOS and macOS. Windows is a bit trickier since you need to install a driver. Desktop Linux requires installing udev rules, and some distributions with frozen software versions have a buggy service which interferes. > Need special cables and to know a lot about jailbreaking Android devices, or will I be fine just following instructions? Non-technical people can do it. You only need a browser with WebUSB. You don't need any special software. > Is it very inconvenient to use as a daily driver? Nearly the same as the stock Pixel OS with nearly as broad app compatibility if you use sandboxed Google Play. > How often phone just crashes and requires a few days of debugging? You likely won't experience significantly more crashes. It has user-facing crash reporting not existing in the stock OS so you'll notice crashes you wouldn't have known about it. Buggy apps with memory corruption may crash until you enable the per-app compatibility mode, ESPECIALLY if you opt-in to forcing MTE for all user installed apps. > Will my bank app work on it? If your bank allows a non-Google-certified OS, which most still do. Banks are gradually disallowing using a non-Google-certified OS and this essentially needs to be addressing as an anti-competition regulation issue. We're working on convincing banks to use https://grapheneos.org/articles/attestation-compatibility-gu... in the meantime. |