The Ultimate GrapheneOS Guide: Perfect for Beginners

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@Jonah

And you should fix the long-term support row, which is extremely inaccurate. You need to decide whether it means:

1. Years of support after the device is EOL

• in which case, GrapheneOS is actually more like 1-2 years, not 5

2. or, years of support since the device launch date

• in which case, CalyxOS is actually more like 5-7 years, not 1-3

You’re currently using the first definition for CalyxOS and the second definition for GrapheneOS, which obviously makes GrapheneOS look unrealistically better. It probably goes without saying that DivestOS blows both of them out of the water in terms of post-EOL updates, but I’m not sure that’s very clear in your table either.

It is worth noting that from the Pixel 6 series and up, there will be no extended support by GrapheneOS.

Pixel 4 and 5 series still have extended support because they only had 3 years of software updates from the release, and extended support is just a harm reduction before people move to secure devices that receive full updates.

I see long extended support as a bad thing and not a good thing because it gives people a false sense of security even though they aren’t receiving firmware and driver security updates, etc.