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There are 3 important factors that drove me to CalyxOS rather than GrapheneOS:
1/ There's no way in HELL I'm buying a Pixel phone and giving my money to Google for the privilege of not being tracked by Google. That's really too rich for me.
2/ I want a repairable device.
Therefore I bought a FairPhone 4 (repairable and not Google), and only CalyxOS supports it - of those two that is.
And finally 3/ The GrapheneOS community is toxic. Although in fairness, now that the Chief Toxic Officer is gone, maybe it's gotten better. At any rate, the Calyx community is completely peaceful and exemplary compared to Graphene.
This may not matter to you, but it seems to me like a sane thing to do not to trust software made by someone who talks that much shit.
Graphene community isn't toxic at all, there's some people who you really shouldn't listen to seriously for advice but other then that it's like all community's with some good eggs and bad eggs