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Installed Graphene OS (thelemmy.club)
submitted 7 months ago by to c/privacy@lemmy.ml
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The installation was very easy! It's very greatful that my data doesn't send to Google any more.

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[–] 37 points 7 months ago (10 children)

Welcome to the fold!

Just a heads up, GOS doesn't recommend the F-droid app as apparently there's some security concerns. SideOfBurritos on YouTube talks more about it. An app like Droidify or Neo Store would be better and still uses the same F-Droid repositories. I use and really like Obtanium which allows you to download and manage apps directly from their websites, GitHub, F-Droid, & more.

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  • [–] 16 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    Seconded on Obtainium. Basically any FOSS app is gonna have a repo there with releases regardless, and you can always just use an f-droid repository if they only publish releases there.

    Plus, way easier to export a list of installed apps to restore them at a later date!

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  • [–] 9 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    and you can always just use an f-droid repository if they only publish releases there.

    So Obtainium users can install F-Droid apps through Obtainium?

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  • [–] 9 points 7 months ago

    Yep! It's not the same experience as F-Droid (e.g. it's not gonna be you scrolling through a list of apps, picking the one you want, and hitting install. Obtainium is more of a "get the URL to where the app's releases are, paste it in here, add it, then hit install, plus you might have to do a little config so it selects the right release if there are multiple", but once it's set up, it's set up.

    I fully replaced the F-Droid app with Obtainium for actually installing and updating apps, but I still keep the F-Droid app around just because I can go on there, search up apps, do a little browsing, then take the app I want and put it in Obtainium.

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  • [–] 9 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    Good to know. Any informative reads on this? I like burritos but prefer them as the main dish.

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  • [–] 6 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Here's the Side of Burritos video with two followup videos in the description (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IzpVI4zaso0)

    I don't really know much about it to be honest, and the video is pretty old, and someone in the comments says the issue is fixed but I haven't seen that anywhere else. I just use Obtanium anyway since you can get most FOSS apps from GitHub, a for ones that don't, you can still find F-Droid apps. SideOfBurritos also has a more recent video about how to set up and use Obtanium if you're interested.

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    Is there a way to install Obtainium other than downloading it from a seemingly random website?

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