Comment by prmoustache

while lineageos and derived roms like /e/os are doing a good job supporting old smartphone models and temporarily saving them from thr landfill, they are struggling to support less than 5 year old models that aren't google pixel and fairphones.

The google pixel line were the only smartphone you could buy new on a brick and mortar shop on monday almost anywhere in the world and have it running on a custom rom on tuesday and graphene was leading the way in pushing privacy and security at its maximum while other rom maker are making a lot more concessions.

LineageOS still is king to save old devices but grapheneos definitely is a major player because some people like me did chose second hand google pixel with the sole purpose of being able to run graphene.

Ironically, running a google smartphone was the best way to live a life without sending data and rely on google services.