I appreciate the GrapheneOS recommendation (I proudly donated with XMR :sparkles:) but believe we should clarify our guidance so newcomers don’t think stock Android is recommended. Currently, when navigating through the hamburger menu, you’ll find: Recommendations > Operating Systems > Android (N…

That’s fine then, maybe the design suggestion would be change the title of the menu so it reads Recommendations > Operating Systems > GrapheneOS as it reads right now to a novice it seems like you are recommending stock android, where it seems like the forum users are 75% GrapheneOS and 23% iOS. …

Fwiw, I think the design change should be: Recommendations → Operating Systems → Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, iOS

I disagree beacuse I don’t think privacy guides recommends macOS or Windows… I think changing the name from android to grapheneOS would make me happy and eliminate confusion… the android title seems to be an artifact of the distant past when DivestOS was an option too. I think the GrapheneOS team …

[image] anon99860907: I disagree beacuse I don’t think privacy guides recommends macOS or Windows… Silly me, I didn’t realize this entire time that this was for Operating System recommendations, and even though I saw it, thought it was overviews for Operating Systems :sweat_smile:. (I suppose…

[image] anon99860907: improve the formatting and grammar of this post, and add some emojis to it. ▶ Off-topic

Our recommendations in the Android category of pages are in fact for all Android devices. For example, you can install Obtainium or F-Droid on any Android device, they are not GrapheneOS exclusive recommendations.

Also: [image] anon99860907: when on the forum 75% of users use GrapheneOS and 23% use iOS or something like that. [image] Poll: Which Phone Operating System do you use? Questions poll [image] Which mobile operating system are you using? Off To…

There’s only 1 lineageOS and 4 calyxOS users so I wouldn’t say there are many of those.

I think this is a good time to remind people that there are way more users of the website then there are of the forum and way more forum users then forum users who respond to these polls. The number of people who respond to these polls is almost certainly not a statistically significant amount to m…

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Replace "Android" with "GrapheneOS" so ppl don't think stock Android is recommended

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jonah (Jonah Aragon) January 14, 2025, 2:07am 12

Also:

Many stock Android, LineageOS, and CalyxOS users out there

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