Android Central: Fairphone (Gen. 6+) with /e/OS

ELI5: Why use /e/OS over Graphene? This isn’t a rhetorical rant; I’m genuinely curious.

Edit: See below. I misphrased this question.

I never used /e/ but I used iode (iode.tech) and it worked really well. Main differences:

• Graphene doesn’t support pattern unlock because they claim PIN is more secure. This is stupid because you can just as easily see what PIN someone typed as the pattern. Since PIN is less convenient most people will use finger print unlock which means you can be easily forced to unlock your phone against your will

• iode has support for shortcuts when using 3 button navigation, Graphene doesn’t for some reason

• iode has really nice tracker blocker which can run next to a VPN, Graphene doesn’t

• Graphene let’s you install Google Services in a separate work profile and separate apps that have access to them from other apps. In iode you will have microG installed system wide

For me that were the biggest differences. When it comes to app support they worked pretty much the same. I’m on Graphene now and it would be too much work to change now but for my next phone I will most likely go with iode.

Couldn’t a guy with a gun force me to enter my pin?

Would police threaten to kill you if you don’t unlock your phone? Not likely. Would they just use your finger and say you agreed to unlock it? More likely.