[OnePlus 5T  Guides, News, & Discussion] DoR3M3:
Newbies seems to have some great confusion about the differences of a ROM from a manufacturer like OnePlus's OxygenOS, vs AOSiP, or RR, or Liquid, Or Omni, or AospExtended, etc... AKA 3rd Party Custom ROMs.

Android is Android! ;)

This is not a comparision of Apple vs Android, or Windows vs Linux, those are big differences across completely different Operating Systems!

This is the same OS Android, that people are sitting around trying to compare it against itself!

Did anyone just catch what I just said? If not, go back and read that over till it makes sense, and I'm not saying this to be rude or anything, it's just a major fact people seem to be forgetting, not realizing, or paying attention to!

All this babble about better is moot!

1. If there is a major consensus that something is better, is it truly the facts, or just the belief of the majority?

2. This ROM discussion/debate is a perfect example of the definition of what does best and better truly mean? Which in the context of these conversations like this, is really just based around personal opinions.

The reason I say opinions rather than facts, because the only way any of this can be proven is with "Benchmarks", and then Benchmarks in and of itself is a whole debate on the Subject of, "Synthetic vs Real World" testing. So the only way to ever see, or know any true differences in stability and performance are with Benchmark Tests, and I don't mean someone sitting around with EX Kernel Manager that said he/she watched it for X amount of hours to do a battery test on, and now claims, this ROM has superior battery performance, this is not a real Benchmark!

Look around, and ask yourself, how many ROM developers have actual Benchmarks on their ROM done with real benchmarking tools? The answer is probably none, and why do you think that is? Because we are not comparing Android vs iOS, there's no point of trying to benchmark the same OS against itself, because as I mentioned before, Android is Android, what one can do they can all do!

Think about this and try to answer it real fast without even thinking about it! Name 5 things in this world, any 5 things, that are truly unequivocally the best or better? See the point to the question? Most things are not better, they are different, but I'm not arguing that there aren't better things in this world, it's just hard to come to those facts over what really is.

And there is only one word I can think of that has made the word better or best almost to the point of being utter rubbish, and that is ---> "Standardization".

The world has gotten pretty good at Standardizing Technology, that the differences are, well, just that, only something different.

When you consider the Android Community as a whole, you'll see just like any other system out there, Windows, OSX, Linux, etc., that there is no major consensus with everyone saying this is the best! So how long does it take people to finally realize that in this world of Technology there is no best, there is only different, and because we all have differenet likes/dislikes, someone will always like something better than someone else, but does that really make it the best, or better?

The "Differences" are only features. :)

What one can do, they all can do!

Education is your Best Weapon!

In the world we live in, people want the best for themselves, and that comes in many forms, and unfortunately because of it, it blinds us to the facts about the world of Technology and Standardization, how Best & Better are a very hard thing to determine, or even come by.

Until human characteristics change, people are always going to keep asking these same questions about which is the best or better.

If you forgot, remember, we are having a conversation over comparing Android against itself, as if it's better, one version of Android over another and it's not, it's just different! ;)