For Skyrim I’ve had pretty good luck with just adding Vortex mod manager as a non steam game, running it with Proton and using mods that way

I pretty much run a pacman -Syu every time i sit down at my computer for the first time in a day haha. On my laptop it might be a while before I turn it on and run an update, so in those cases I’ll check the website to see if any kinda manual intervention is required.

Personally I don’t think I’d use it on my main phone as of now. While it does work well and the granular options for sandboxing/security are awesome, I’d worry about compatibility with banking apps and other more locked down software that, from what I’ve heard, will refuse to run under GrapheneOS. Also, yeah you’d be missing out on some of the exclusive Pixel features that are part of Google’s stock ROM. But overall it works well and handles Play Store backend stuff pretty seamlessly while still keeping the security tight.

From what I understand camera quality and other features may be less performant than stock as well, though in the case of my Pixel 5a the camera experience wasn’t that great before anyways so it didn’t matter to me.

For now on my main phone I’m just gonna keep using stock and dipping into Android betas to mess with the new stuff coming to Pixel phones. Maybe once my desire to be part of that ecosystem is lessened I’d just go for Graphene on my Pixel 7.

I’ve had a Pixel 5a and currently have a Pixel 7. Have enjoyed them greatly. The 5a was a bit mediocre overall, camera performance wasn’t that great & it got a bit slow over time. That being said, the clean OS experience and integration was always nice and it was perfectly suitable for my needs at a good price.

Now that I’m using my Pixel 7 as a daily, the Pixel 5a is holding up pretty well with GrapheneOS as a backup phone / media player.

Pixel 7 has been really nice to me. Interface is smooth, camera is nice, everything just works essentially. And getting the latest Android pretty quickly is a nice feeling. My only gripe is that Google’s SoC is still a bit lacking and battery life isn’t the best, but I hear the current Android beta has some promising battery life improvements.

Overall I’ve been having a good time with them. Still kinda miss my Nexus 5x tho, that thing was sweet…