thinking about paying $500 for a pixel 6 to nuke it and install either lineage or graphene. Main reasons: security, I want to degoogle, hate bloatware, I want complete freedom to choose what apps I want on my device, smartphones are notoriously known for their short support cycles (to me 4 years is not enough).
what I don’t know is why graphene developers have chosen proprietary hardware from what has to be one of the most foss unfriendly companies
Pixel 8 here (broke my 7 a couple of months ago).
Works great. Updates are fast, and I keep a work profile with play services and maps installed. The only think I know for that doesn’t work is google pay, which I’ve never understood the use case for.