Two years, I barely notice. 1 in 30 apps has an issue, then I click the switch remove system memory protections and it works.

It's the best option.

I've been using it for about a year now. The only differences I noticed were entirely positive.

The show stopers are some banking apps that don't work and tap to pay

If that's not an issue for you, then I've had zero problems running GOS. You'll spend the first week figuring out using different profiles, the cleaner interface, installing things that you actually want. But after that you won't even notice the difference.

I use Android auto, I have Google installed in a profile for it, everything else is clean without Google, everything works fine.

I've been using it since the Pixel 3 days. Tap to pay doesn't work, and some people have reported banking apps not working, although my banking apps do work. Also, certain pixel-exclusive features like now playing don't work. And you are going to need to install play services or other Google components if you want stuff like notifications in various apps or text-to-speech and speech-to-text in the browser, etc. Aside from that, it's incredible. Works perfectly.

You're fucking up, and I say that in the kindest way.

You'll spend 2 days figuring out issues if you even have them.

It also has one of the coolest installers of all time.

Save what you need to and jump ship.

no tap to pay and some banking apps dont work. but honestly, you should be ditching google stuff altogehter if your going that far of replacing stock android and only use FOSS apps you trust from f-droid

Graphene is working with a different OEM, so, we may not need Google's devices to run GrapheneOS soon.

You can buy second hand phones and then Google doesn't get any more money. Easy solution.

Unfortunately, Google manufacture the best-in-class hardware device when it comes to security features.

The real irony is paying Google what you'd pay for an iPhone 16 and getting iPhone 11 performance and they're spying on you and selling your personal information to who knows who. Okay but you wiped the phone and installed custom firmware that doesn't track you... but you still paid Google the price of current-gen iPhone and got a phone with the performance of one from 5 years ago. Google still won.

The personal information is the point, that's the real gold mine, and they'll get it from enough people to not care about the less than 1% of Pixel owners flashing Graphene. For those users, they're happy to sell generations-old tech at a premium. And they call you a sucker behind your back. And then tell you Apple is the big corporate overlord you're running from and make it sound like Apple is the enemy. (I'm not saying they're not, but that's a convenient story among fandroids. And it may not even be accurate. Because iOS has no open source component though... we don't know.)

Moreover GrapheneOS requires Google Play Services to use most apps, so you're not only using a Google device but also Google Play services! There are much better truly deGoogled alternatives around