In case you're curious, I reached out via their contact link and got this response:
Graphene is licensed under the MIT license. I'm not entirely sure withholding the source code is allowed, but I could be wrong. Either way, this company clearly has ulterior motives.
If you live in the US, Graphene (because fascism).
Also, I'd go for Graphene anyway just because it's easier to install and I don't know of any particular killer features Lineage has that Graphene doesn't (other than working on many more devices, which isn't relevant to you).
I have a 10a and I'm debating between lineage and graphene. Does anyone have an opinion on which is the better option these days?
It's Samsung. It's either deep Google dependency, or deep Samsung dependency.
They could ditch Android and partner with Graphene or Lineage. At least, release one phone without a deep oogle dependency.
[...] and may be hidden in different system packages depending on the model. It is already on the phone before the owner turns it on for the first time and cannot be removed.
I'm not really familiar with how Droid Deck works but I imagine that having to emulate Linux for the Steam launcher and all of that on top of the game does incur an additional cost that Game Native and Winlator doesn't have. If someone with better knowledge of how it works could chime in that'd be great.
The numbers these companies use for quarterly "loss" is just the quarterly profit increases not meeting their insane projections.
In other words, they didn't make as big of a profit as they thought they would.
Profit increases as a metric needs to go the way of Charlie Kirk.
I have used GameNative and it works okay, but I don't have a Snapdragon device so it doesn't have the best results. I know there are lots of videos on Droid Deck on Android handhelds with the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2, and indie titles run fine for the most part. Have not tried it myself though, but it seems neat and will only improve from now!
Nice, a webUSB installer is very cool! The new photo editing app looks nest too...
GameNative performs better right now. But I can't predict the future.
Why is everyone downvoting?
The problem with alternatives is they have to be alternative, otherwise they are the same, which is not alternative.
Google's product history is readily available. Anyone that willingly buys one of these deserves all of the inevitable headaches.
I think the point was that Google is trying to position these as an alternative to laptops running the well-established OSs, but that makes no sense when it can't do what can be done on those others.
They profited 30.5 billion in 2025 which was a 33% increase from the previous year... 2.2 billion is NOT a loss and I hate when its considered that. They are doing just fine and im sure we will be the ones that suffer ultimately in the end.
Those are considered professional software and these are considered toys.
Oh no, if only Samsung hadn't sold all is ram to data centers.
theyre complaining that the adobe suite isn't on "Google books" which are just Chromebooks running android... why did you think that adobe would add support for android??
How much of that 2.2 billion loss did Samsung pay to Samsung for DRAM...?
Absolutely. It was bought and installed by the previous owner. It drives me absolutely insane that this is the one app that decides to reject Graphene when everything else including banking and travel apps are running fine. MyQ blames it on CloudFlare
Oh boy, this will turn out well....
We start from GrapheneOS, strip out Google and its tracking, lock down the bootloader and USB data paths, and pre-install a vetted set of secure tools. You get a hand-configured secure device without having to be the expert who set it up.
Graphene, by default, already comes stripped of google and automatically locks the bootloader during the install process. This is nothing but FUD.
This company is just using Graphene to boost sales of their preinstalled phones. Prime example: they're selling a 9 Pro XL ($500 phone today) with this fork installed for $1700. FFS.
open source
no links to repo
Hard no.
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They say they are a fork of and are "built on" grapheneOS, which is open source, but don't offer any links to their own repo (that I can find) to see the changes they have made, which to me feels misleading.
Cool story bro