Flashing the stock Pixel ROM back is just as simple as flashing GrapheneOS, the instructions in GOS website are very good for both.

The only two things I can think of that might be issues are banking apps and Google Pay, if you use that. I use Play services in the main profile and honestly there’s not much difference to the stock ROM in terms of user experience. Even Android Auto works nowadays.

For the banking apps, you can have a look at https://privsec.dev/posts/android/banking-applications-compatibility-with-grapheneos/. Just note that if your bank is not on the list, it doesn’t necessarily mean it wont work.

Imagine if all the people who prefer systemd would write posts like this as often as the opposition. Just use what you like, there are plenty of distros to choose from.

• Open the GUI network settings
• Set DNS to the IP of the PiHole, make sure the “automatic” switch is off.
• Do the above for each active interface (ethernet, wlan) and for both IPv4 and IPv6
• Save/apply settings
• Turn the interface(s) off, then back on
• resolvectl flush-caches just in case

Look at resolvectl dns to check there’s no DHCP-acquired DNS servers set anymore

If you use a VPN, those often set their own DNS servers too, remember to check it as well.

This is true, with a couple gigs of RAM and SATA storage Nextcloud is not at all bad. Assuming an instance with not that much simultaneous users.

It feels like slow sometimes, then after an hour with M365 at work it doesn’t feel slow at all.

In Finland synchronization in gearboxes is starting to become a thing nowadays. Double clutching for 20 years now (38).

Just kidding, got my first automatic two years ago, so yes.

There’s a base image of ublue, which is Silverblue without a DE. I’d suppose you can mostly just layer e.g. Sway or i3 on top.

Traditional package model will still have it’s usage, of course, I agree. But if Silverblue works for a developer like me, I’d say a for more “regular” users immutable distros seem like a very viable option.

I recently put the nvidia variant of ublue-os on my work laptop, which has Optimus graphics. Couldn’t be happier.

It’s great to see these variants popping up! I really think ostree may be the future for desktop Linux, and not even very far away.

Thank you!