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walterbellyesterday at 8:17 PM1 replyview on HN

From another comment - I switched phone to Pixel and it has worked well, with a separate profile for apps that require Google Play Services.

> GrapheneOS on Pixel and Pixel Tablet have been anomaly free, but Android tablet usability is << Apple iPad Pro.

iPad Pro with Magic Keyboard and 4:3 screen is an engineering marvel. The UX overhead of Pixel Tablet and inconsistency of Android apps made workflows slow or even impractical, so I eventually went back to iPad and accepted the cost/pain of re-imaging periodically, plus having a hot-spare device,


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drnick1yesterday at 10:50 PM

Graphene does not use the Pixel UI by default, it's very barebones. IMO, it's much better than the bloated Google UI.