alt Hacker NewsI've used countless ROMs over the years, as well as stock android, AOSP, cyanogen mod, later lineage os., caylx etc., without google, with microg etc.
Honestly Graphene is the first where everything just worked, and gave me the option to take or leave google apps, and have them in a sandbox if I desired.
Probably the first time I haven't felt the need to root or install magisk modules to customize behavior.
For me it's like having your cake and eating it too.
To be honest, and this probably seems minor / trivial, but one of the only things I miss about using GOS is the ability to turn on the flash light by holding the power or whatever other button.
I'm curious about the rough edges you experienced.
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You can add a flashlight tile in the pull down menu thing. It's not the same but it's close.
ones so far:
1. apps are rather slow to install, since GOS compiles JIT (just-in-time compiled code) on install for security/speed. It's a bit of a pain when I'm needing something now 2. play integrity fails, so some banks¹ don't work, and NFC payments are pretty much bricked 3. I had some weird issue setting up my galaxy watch. probably a Samsung thing but it'd download software for an hour then fail with a generic message multiple times
now writing this out, I realize a lot of these are skill issues I need to just take a couple hours and try to fix
1: my solution is just to use web apps and it works well since I end up with less apps. PWA FTW!