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[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (2 children)

It has sandboxed google play and services

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Calyx is not hardened at all like Graphene. MicroG is supposed to be insecure, I miss UnifiedNLP though.

GrapheneOS has sandboxed Google Play apps, which are said to support all things. So they have the regular apps but with a compatibility layer so they work as normal apps like they should.

I dont use it though, and there is no Openstreetmap redirect or UnifiedNLP

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

That's a good addition to the ecosystem. I don't know if I want an official Play Services implementation on my phone, though. Even one without root access. I know microg isn't perfect, but Google has been removed as much as functionally possible from it. I may just deal with the persistent notification, once I upgrade my phone (on 4xl atm), because I really liked everything else about GrapheneOS and want to compare it to CalyxOS properly, not after only 2 weeks on Graphene. How do you like it? Have you noticed that you're missing anything important?