Fairphone

e/OS, year 7 or 8. Not the Murena edition, I installed it myself. It works for me since FP3, but I'm not a power user. Little bit of banking, Signal and phone. I'm not interested in having the most secure, uber-mystified computer in my pocket, I'm not a spy. It's de-googled, uses only one app with ChatGPT which you can just deactivate. Enough privacy for me.

I'm running CalyxOS. You shouldn't for now as they are in a pause until further notice. I'm too lazy to change my OS now and change back when they release their new version (still hoping the new version to come around January ).

Also, I always find that the others have drawbacks that disturb me:

• lineageOS : can't lock the bootloader, which can be a security issue (but quite limited). It can prevent some applications to work.

• /e/OS : their app store is a mix between the aurora store and f droid, but it can not add fdroid repos ( no izzyondroid, or other specific repos). So f droid is needed, but I had some conflict with the updates. A lot of their app are just open-source app with another icon and name (e.g : maps is magic earth) they are system app that cannot be remove easily. And their "maps" gave me trouble back then to use it with android auto.

• iodeOS : I had trouble installing it with their installer, I insisted and installed it on top of lineageOS. To use their full ad/tracker blocker you have to pay a monthly fee, which is fine to support them, but I would have loved to be able to test it before having to pay. I lost a bit of confidence when I saw on their site that android auto worked, but after install, I was unable to use it. (It was last year, AA should work now)

With calyxOS, 99% of what I need is working and I do not have much system app I do not use. I use "personalDNSfilter to block ads and trackers. I guess that IodeOS is the only one in this list that let you use a VPN in addition of their blocker, as their blocker work on a DNS level not a VPN one.

As Calyx has android auto working (all of OS should have it now), and I found stub that make it possible to use AA without Maps, Google app and TTS from google, I'm happy. I tried my bank app to pay with the phone, it didn't work with calyxOS, it is a minor problem for me, and I do not know if it works on other OS. If Calyx pause is longer than expected, I might give Iodé another run.

As all these ROM use the same backup tool, it should not be too troublesome to test them without loosing much data or time.

FP3 user here. I use LineageOS. It may not be as hardened as Graphene or Calyx, but it gets the job done and it still gets updates.

I run the community build from e-os in my fairphone because i wanted to tinker a bit.

I chickened out of avoiding Google at the last minute because my primary bank is app only and I'd heard that it doesn't work on different OS's.

That was months ago, and with the news, I'm beginning to look into ways to Jump ship, it's just happened to coincide with my jump to Linux setting up my first home server and work being busier, so I'm not really setting any time aside for it for a while.