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I dont want to start a fight or anything like that, I have to decide between these 2 and cant figure out which is the best and why, mostly because if you ask on X they just start swearing to each other without giving any real explanation, can anyone help a person who want to embrace privacy and anonimity?

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[–] LoveSausage@lemmygrad.ml 9 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

I use calyx on a spare phone, graphene on my regular. Graphene is better security wise, and better privacy wise.

If your device can run graphene is go for it.

Graphene for example are using a sandbox Google play that's not have any special privileges. Which you can choose to use or not. Or use in a separate profile. Calyx comes with microg from the start. Which still uses proprietary stuff. Just the hardened malloc and other stuff under the hood on graphene makes it a better option

[–] kaliban@lemmy.ml 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

what about battery life? I heard that calyx can stay on for a long time without any issues because there are no actual background apps but I didnt heard anything about that for graphene, can you confirm that since you use it as daily drive?

[–] LoveSausage@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Amazing battery life , comparing a new install of calyx and graphene it's a ton of difference. Calyx looks bloated in comparison with graphene. There's basically like 5 apps on a new graphene install. Just running microg takes a lot of stuff to run.

[–] kaliban@lemmy.ml 3 points 11 months ago

perfect, thanks for the help.