This is by far the most thorough, detailed and well explained video on how to get Graphene OS to date I have seen. She also explains app stores and other nifty little feature sets within to aid you in properly setting it up (after install) really well and well optimized for all that you may want from the OS from a privacy and security POV atleast. She goes from acquisition of the hardware to actually using it after having it set up in full. Fantastic video!
I just wanted to share this for anyone to watch or learn.
Thanks for linking this, I found it very informative.
Based on what she said regarding F-Droid and the annoyance of managing individual apps it seemed like maybe Naomi isn’t aware of Obtainium filling that need, which was surprising. Was also surprised she preferred Aurora over the Sand boxed Google Play Store but, I can see why someone wouldn’t want to make a Google account, even if it is just a burner one for app installs.
Currently deGoogling a Pixel tablet to gift to my in-law… I wonder if deGoogling matters as the new owner will want to specifically install Candy Crush.
I will probably install a Sandboxed Google Play account with a logged in account as a means of harm reduction.
At least I can trust this and maybe enable sharing of videos and pictures.
One issues I have with obtainium is that some sources just cannot be pulled correctly,
I couldnt pull and install brave correctlt, it just keep saying apk names not matching.
Same goes to an keyboard app that I use hosted in uptodown, cant even down the apk.
Another example is proton suites, the web site does not always have the latest version, ironicly, sometime it delays for quite a few days.
Still you need to get plenty on normal apps from play store, like banking, transport, even synology suites. I would prefer Aurora over Google play store app in this case.
Thats fair. I run into the same issue. The community settings have helped a bit with that. I typically am able to set it to use the F-Droid version of the app when this happens.
I think this is just a matter of a preference. I much prefer sandboxed Google Play with a burner Google account then Aurora store.
Same except, replace Aurora with Play Store. Although I mostly use f-droid to search for apps, rather then download apps through it.
The problem is that there’s people who can’t afford a Pixel and they need to stick to what they got, like me with Samsung… It will be nice to have a similar video but for non-Pixel devices.
again the difference here is that he did not claim 100% Degoogle, Just 99%, which is fair (since he also recommends Aurora and Newpipe and Vanadium and these technically are Google)
Again unless you wanna advocate for Firefox on mobile which we know due to insecurities it doesn’t work that way.
@Lukas seems to be pointing that the term “de-Google” would denote a switch from Google’s creations. Which technically doesn’t happens, even when using GrapheneOS.
AOSP, Chromium and Pixel are all Google’s creations.
That is why the Apple comment.
@Lukas used to be a regular user of the forum. Nowadays I’m seeing him very infrequently, hope to see more of his comments.
It sounds odd when we know hardware and privacy-wise the pixels are the most secure phones but then google is not quite mind settling when it comes to privacy.
After watching that video, she said not to have phone with a plan has the “OEM unlocking” would most likely be grayed out. I personally have a Pixel with a plan and the OEM unlocking isn’t greyed. Does that mean I’m ok to switch?
Also, in that same vein, does the phone itself has a fingerprint? Is it too late to switch to GrapheOS? In other words, should you absolutely start with a fresh phone?
