Continuing the discussion from TWRP for Fairphone 5:
Not much of an expert here since Iām an os Rom newbie myself but it seems that lineage has frequent updates and is not too far from the stock os. Iād judge them to be fairly comparable, even if my experience with lineage has been just a tad more buggy than the fp os. If you choose to keep your bootloader unlocked like I did it may be a bit of an extra risk to take security wise.
I also chose to play it safe and use the gapps mod to keep my access to the play store,also stock find my android. Something to consider with microg.
@SpidFightFR please keep the discussion reg experience seperated from the TWRP topic. I opened a new topic for you
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Iām using LOS since I bought my FP3. Very few issue so far. It is my daily driver, and works like a charm.
Hello,
I had a FP 2 for 3 years running LineageOS 18.1. For 1 year now, I have a FP 4 running Lineage 22.1. For each of these 2 phones, I didnāt install MicroG and I did the weekly updates and I never had the slightest bug, everything always worked perfectly.
The only ādrawbackā of Lineage that I recognize is the fact that after flashing the rom, itās impossible to lock the bootloader.
Hi there, had my fairphone 5 for about one month, but the first thing I did when unpacking it was checking if it worked and then I unlocked it and installed Lineage.
My primary reason is, that I dont want to use Google services, so I flashed microG for some compatibility and Magisk for my root.
It works absolutely fine, I currently know about two bugs:
If you enable the charge percentage limiter your phone charges quite slowly, if you donāt need that feature everything is well.
The other problem is, that if you donāt boot your phone with a charger attached double tap to wake your screen doesnāt work.
Those are really not an issue for 98% of people, so Iād bet youāre fine. Also these issues have been already reported.
Out of curiosity (I hope itās not off-topic here), are all these settings (like limit battery to 80%, and slow charging) available on LineageOS, or are some of these āFairphone exclusiveā?
Since I stopped running custom ROMs Iām not very educated in whatās part of stock Android and what is specific to manufacturers. I really like the slow charging setting (although I wish Fairphone would (also) have adaptive charging based on the alarm clock) so Iām interested to hear if LineageOS has more, less or the same options. 
You can limit charging to 80% and use āeco chargingā in FPOS. I donāt use the limit to 80% so i cant tell if that causes issues in this too or just with LineageOS
LineageOS usually tries to deliver a bare android experience. They only add some minor features, like their profile system, that allows for some minor automation or the seedvault backup solution. You can get all of that with different apps if you wanted.
If you need additional features people usually go to roms like crdroid, though Iām pretty sure that is currently not available for our phones. Maybe a universal GSI rom.
For me personally I would have been fine, even with fairphone os, wouldnāt have been on the ābleeding edgeā with android versions there, but in the end my goal with custom roms is the Google free experience, so I need a rom without gapps pre-installed.
I waited for los to be released before buying my FP3 and I have been using it since then (with gapps). From time to time, there are bugs, but never really critical ones.
I am very happy with it. The security updates are usually much faster than with the FPOS.
I can only recommend it.
Oh, and I am in Android 15 alreadyā¦
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For me, the charge limiter works perfectly on LOS (I have fast charge and generally, I donāt experience the issues describe by @Janik ).
Thank you! Sounds nice, I will consider migrating when I want faster Android versions again, or if Iām ready to make the no-gapps leap 
Iāve got to say that the experience of Google-less people here sound very positive!
P.S. does anyone know why my posts donāt get the little āreply toā icon like @autraās above has? I keep selecting ālink reply to postā. Ah ā or is it only when there are other messages in between?
