alt Hacker NewsAOSP even with the GrapheneOS improvements provides far better privacy and security than a desktop distribution. Those are the hardest things for a desktop OS to accomplish since they cannot force the whole software ecosystem to conform and very few developers care about it. Developers largely treat their own code and dependencies as trusted. Few developers are inclined to heavily invest resources in limiting their own access and capabilities. The baseline sandbox provided by AOSP enables the GrapheneOS improvements because of how much is standard.