thinking about paying $500 for a pixel 6 to nuke it and install either lineage or graphene. Main reasons: security, I want to degoogle, hate bloatware, I want complete freedom to choose what apps I want on my device, smartphones are notoriously known for their short support cycles (to me 4 years is not enough).
what I don’t know is why graphene developers have chosen proprietary hardware from what has to be one of the most foss unfriendly companies
How’s camera? Do you use the Google camera app and it’s the same or a foss camera and quality is fine but you lose some of the Google photo processing from their app?
Altough features like Top Shot (short video while taking pictures) and face retouching are available in the Pixel Camera app (from Play Store), they can’t be configured unless Google Photos is installed. For advanced editing features (magic eraser) GPhotos has to have internet permission.
The pre-installed GrapheneOS Camera isn’t as good as official Pixel Camera, but Pixel Camera works without any internet permission.
Imo there’s no point in using GrapheneOS while using Google’s internet-assisted editing features.
magic eraser only needs internet access once to download. I have it, but g photos doesn’t have internet acess