[Galaxy Note II Original Android Development] Rickav:
Just my experience with the rom so far:

I moved over from CyanogenModX based on CM12.1 which had served well for the most part. Hadn't updated in a couple of months & the general lagginess with frequent System UI crashes made it a hassle to use. Soon after, [MENTION=4958387]UtkarshGupta[/MENTION], CyanogenModX's brilliant developer, closed the thread for a personal break and recommended this one.

Bit apprehensive about making the jump to Marshmallow CM13 (Samsung stopped updates after 4.4.2 & official CyanogonMod stopped after CM11) but an update was clearly necessary for my phone. Installation process was a bit hairy as I had previously re-partitioned the phone to squeeze a bit more space out of it which rendered some of the essential partitions unmountable. Eventually, following some tinkering, a classic full internal storage/system/data wipe > flash rom > flash open gapps > flash supersu > clear cache/dalvik > reboot system through the latest TWRP recovery got me all sorted out.

Having completed installation & setup, the upgrade has been largely successful. Distinct lack of lag, no SystemUI crashes (yet!) and smoother animations throughout. Reading the last few pages, I haven't faced any Wi-fi networking or auto-rotation issues. My only gripe so far would be the support, or lack thereof, of external SD card. I've set it up to be used as a portable SD card, however many of my apps don't seem to be detecting it all. For example, MiXplorer can't locate it by default (need to manually route to root/mnt/media_rw/#my-card-id#) while AirDroid believes it doesn't exist at all (despite all of its storage permissions being granted). This isn't ideal but can be worked around for the most part (although I can't speak for those who store apps on their SD cards). Another, very trivial, improvement I would suggest is to have the date shown in small text next to the clock (eg. 24 SUN 3:00) purely because it's pretty neat-looking when the clock is centred along the status bar, something I appreciated on my previous rom. The only other thing I would like to request is for the Mobile Data QS Tile to be converted such that selecting it switches Data on/off rather than display more settings when the QS tile is promoted to the first row.

Overall, I've really enjoyed the transition to this rom & look forward to future progress from [MENTION=4610599]Ivan_Meler[/MENTION]. Taking into account that it's been over 3 years since the device has been released, the upgrade to the latest CM has been a welcome change while the bar has been set well high by this rom. Thanks for your time.

Now for some screenshots... To show-off!

In before any questions: re-sized the images smaller for easier viewing, display is set to 240dpi, and I'm using Dark Material CM theme.

[IMG="Lockscreen - Dark Wood"]http://xdaforums.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=3620643&stc=1&d=1453648435[/IMG] [IMG="About phone"]http://xdaforums.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=3620644&stc=1&d=1453648435[/IMG]

[IMG="Landscape settings"]http://xdaforums.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=3620645&stc=1&d=1453648435[/IMG]

[IMG="Recent apps switcher"]http://xdaforums.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=3620646&stc=1&d=1453648435[/IMG] [IMG="Multi-windows apps!"]http://xdaforums.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=3620709&stc=1&d=1453650159[/IMG]