No one?
Okay … I think I will try to dirty flash LOSmicroG 14.1 and then do an upgrade to 15.1 in a couple of days…
What could possibly go wrong 
I don’t think preserving data will work when switching from /e/ to LOS, but you can try. Just make a backup before and if it all fails wipe the phone and make a clean install.
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And if it doesn’t, then go back to your previous TWRP backup and save individually your favorite apps e.g. with Titanium backup…
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Here are some screenshots of that app store. It’s quite interesting I must say:
The F-Droid Store is of course available on the /e/ store.
Not all infos are stored in the metadata yet it seems, but the /e/ store shows a lot of cool info.
In the F-Droid app there are no trackers, duh!
As an app store F-Droid needs a lot of permissions and because of that it only has a 5/10 score for privacy (first screenshot).
Facebook on the other hand of course has a 0/10 privacy score…
…and lots of trackers.
Compared to F-Droid the /e/ app store has:
- more apps (though lots of apps available on F-Droid are still missing - in turn there seems to be a lot of junk)
- no inclusion policy - so e.g. proprietary apps are included too.
- no way to filter out apps with trackers
- more info about included trackers within the client app (in F-Droid you have to go to the wiki site about the app to find out more info).
- no way to downgrade apps
- no info about whether e.g. the servers the app accesses are free software
but some of that may still change.
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One additional advantage of /e/ app store compared to F-Droid, Yalp et al is that (because /e/ app store is part of the system) it installs apps even with “install from unknown sources” disabled in security settings.
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For F-Droid thats also possible if you flash https://f-droid.org/de/packages/org.fdroid.fdroid.privileged.ota/
From what I understood, FPOOS has it preinstalled. And I successfully use it with Lineage OS.
Edit: from some Android version onwards the global “allow unknown sources” option was replaced by a similar setting per app. So one would allow f-droid to install apps. Maybe the priviledged extension becomes obsolete by that?
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Nonsense ranking, IMHO.
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I agree. If all you go by is permissions and trackers I guess you should rather multiply than add them. 0x5=0
Nice try… although the official Facebook app doesn’t have any external tracker, and that doesn’t qualify it as a 0, exactly… 
Ponderating privacy is a challenging task, for sure. But c’mon, surely F-Droid is not in the mediocrity.
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There’s now a (at least test) version of /e/ basing on Android Pie resp lineageOS 16:
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Sounds great! How are your experiences so far? Do you think it is possibly to shift from LineageOS16 (+microg) to /e/ Oreo without losing my apps?
I don’t have experiences so far with /e/ Pie. The “official” /e/ OS (Android Nougat) works fine. Shift from LOS16 to /e/ Oreo will probably not work (it’d be a downgrade of Android version). LOS16 to /e/ Android Pie might work without losing apps but I’m not too optimistic…! (I’ve never tried it out)
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I didn’t tested it but I’d advise to make a “Titanium backup” of your apps (or similar) one by one, then start with a fresh install. Remember to do a full TWRP backup to be able to go back to your LOS16 afterwards.
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Have you already tried to switch from lineageOS to /e/ pie (following the advice of @oli.sax )?
This is exactly what I did to go from /e/ nougat to /e/ pie and after using the pie version for more than two weeks I can say it works without issues for me.
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Didn’t try yet… lack of time at the moment. And titanum also needs root no? Didn’t look into how to root yet…
Yes (at least temporarily for backup/restore).
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On LineageOS, to activate root is really easy, only one file to flash from TWRP recovery (addonsu-xx.x-arm-signed.zip where xx.x is LOS version number) then allowing Root in developper’s settings (7 taps on version number if you did’t have it yet)
Thanks I got that. As I found a new /e/ Test build that runs with Android Pie I want to give it a try.
Can someone tell me how to root with /e/??
Btw. I tried /e/ fast after a factory reset. however when I tried to restore my data partition used with lineage, /e/ didnt like that 