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It really depends on what you want from your phone and what matters to you.
I recently got a refurbished OnePlus 9 and put lineage on it. I would have gone with a pixel and graphene, but pixels with more storage are hard to come by and expensive.
Find which roms are available for your phone and choose from there, or if you want to change the Asus phone, look at your target specs and which phone ROM combination you can find
Stuck on a relatively new Galaxy rn, but if I could install a custom ROM, it would be GNOME shell mobile
I’m looking at getting a new phone this Christmas. I’ve been fucking with fedora on my main and Garuda on a cheap mini pc in the garage. So I’d like to swap my phone over too. What is a good model to look into or a good model to await?
dislike this OS due to perceived misleading advertising
It's a non-profit, there is no advertising.
and the pixel 7a you're supposed to install graphene on because it's from google (an advertising company).
Yeah I dunno what that's supposed to mean. You can't install it on an iPhone or most other Android devices because they all have locked bootloader's (among other reasons). They only develop for Pixel because it streamlines the development process, along with having the highest level of security in the SoC.
Another option would be lineage OS
Lineage is a great project, and fairly private, but as the name implies, it's intended for older phones to increase their life. Not necessarily to be private.
what works for you?
Graphene
Would like to know too! I use a proprietary OS for now and want to jump ship with my next phone.