[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, &] firstFirmament:
Android 10 vs Deluxe ROM

I will take time to address this having spent good time researching this and using different ROMs in past 2 months And i will try to be objective and detailed to help you all with time i spent testing.

I used Deluxe for over a year and last month was getting 5 to 6 hours of video viewing time. Have been using Project sakura which gives 6:30-7:30 hours of battery life (check screenshot). Did both tests with continuous binge watch parks and recreation TV show at 30% brightness. Though difference may be affected due to different lighting types used in different episodes of TV show, or maybe because Sakura is very light (880mb rom) and has no useful additional samsung services/functionality running in background.

I also tested AOSP evolution and ancient. All A10 are snappier and have higher Geekbench score but lack functionality that a Note series phone provides.

Pros of AOSP Android 10 Roms

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-Snapier: when comes to using keyboard as they use lighter google keyboard, hugely noticeable. If you type a lots go for Android Q and quickly switching apps and multitasking. All pie roms are sluggish. MAJOR BENEFIT

-While using heavy apps like Onenote the cursor doesn't jump, however long the text is. Text doesn't randomly start getting jumbled and copy paste itself like in all Pie roms. Q has better RAM management.

-Reboots in less than 10 seconds

-faster screen unlock , noticeable

-OTA updates, eg Project sakura, usually every month security patch. MAJOR BENEFIT

-longer battery life. MAJOR BENEFIT

-better app sleep settings for battery.

-in general the settings menu is cleaner and easier and more flexible.

-has Australia CSC, MAJOR "PERSONAL" BENEFIT

Cons

-Spen works like a stylus but has no awesome Samsung features. Missing translate, screen draw. Spen button does nothing. S-pen only works as normal stylus, it does work to hover over a website to pop open sub categories of shopping sites. MAJOR DRAWBACK

-No samsung cloud support, cant restore call logs. Solution: use third party apps.

-Sound Assistant: can't set different media volumes for different apps. Third party apps available though

-Smart Things missing: device/bluetooth sound output device selection if kultiple devices connected. Android 10 provides the same function by default to change which device sound comes from but you have to go to settings sound select device. Whereas in Deluxe you just pull down the notification bar and set it in 2 clicks. I like Deluxe when driving can easily switch between car stereo and headphones as per neccassity without having to park car(still not safe for traffic rules but possible)

-Cannot re-assign bixby button. Most Android 10 roms just assign it to google assistant. If you use third party app it will do two things at once i.e. the task you assigned and open google assistant, which is annoying because then you can't do one thing properly and revert back to google assistant only.

-Volte not working, I don't know a single soul who uses it in Australia. Minor issue.

-Samsung Dex, never used anyways. Dont know why would somebody use inferior OS on a Desktop when already windows and linux are doing better job.

-camera app, most camera apps fail if using flash. BestGCam/gppgle camera port works perfectly on Q. Also not an issue.

-Ok Google works but only by pressing bixby key, voice recognition of Google Assistant doesn't work.

I will come back to Deluxe once v28 is out, its not worth losing S-pen features on a Samsung Note 8. You have to understand that Note is a different category of smartphones and means nothing special without the Samsung S-Pen

But if you are Samsung S8 user or don't use S-Pen translate feature, there is no reason to stick to Pie. Samsung cloud is getting terminated slowly by Samsung anyways. Q is lot faster and snappier. Project Sakura is my daily driver for past 1 month and is best Android Q out there.

Deluxe is, and will always be, best work for Samsung Note 8, given its a samsung stock enhancement and Abraham has put good work in it.