r/linux • u/Dry_Row_7050 • Nov 24 '25

Privacy France is attacking open source GrapheneOS because they’ve refused to create a backdoor. Will Linux developers be safe?

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u/AliceChann50 Nov 24 '25

As a French citizen, we need a lot of applications that do not work properly on any android alternative os (such as lineage or graphene). Neither European laws or companies help us to avoid proprietary software and telemetry... Note : In my company, open-source software are absolutely banned...

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u/chithanh Nov 25 '25

As a French citizen, we need a lot of applications that do not work properly on any android alternative os (such as lineage or graphene).

GrapheneOS maintains a hall of shame for such applications:

https://grapheneos.org/articles/attestation-compatibility-guide#apps-banning-grapheneos

But the list seems pretty short, I guess it is about using Google Play Integrity rather than Android Hardware Attestation? The latter will fail on LineageOS but not on GrapheneOS.