NanoDroid VS NanoDroid

Thats interesting Nanodroid includes some little features and nice-ities that also include a bash shell and Zelda ringtones! Cool!

You can also patch your already-install ROM (up to android 10) by flashing NanoDroid-patcher (https://github.com/Nanolx/NanoDroid), without any computer interaction. It will auto-patch every updated ROM.

Take a look at NanoDroid to make your ROM support spoofing if you want MicroG without flashing a ROM that already supports spoofing.

NanoDroid GitHub

Else you can try to install it yourself (there's tool like NanoDroid that can install it).

There is a method of flashing Nandroid to get spoofing on lineage os if you device is not supported by losmicrog

It's also not officially supported on LineageOS because it requires signature spoofing, so you'll need to mess around with using nanodroid every week when you update (which is far from bulletproof, it was broken on LOS 17.1 for the longest time) or following random guides on reddit.

MicroG is a bit of a pain to install. The easiest way imo is to use a package like NanoDroid, you can also build a settings/overlay/apps file to fine tune your install with this. I think I read a while back that some other package was regarded better, but I can't remember what that's called.

https://github.com/Nanolx/NanoDroid/blob/master/doc/Issues.md#push-messages

Went to the provided Deodex instructions, and read in the VDEX steps that I need to "get latest vdexExtractor".

Full Doc: https://gitlab.com/Nanolx/NanoDroid/-/blob/master/README.md

If you only have LOS nothing else, than you can try to patch your rom with nanodroid patcher: https://gitlab.com/Nanolx/NanoDroid/-/blob/master/doc/DeodexServices.md

You can change which apps to install with nanodroid, and you can configure a lot steps with config files. Read the manual: https://gitlab.com/Nanolx/NanoDroid/-/blob/master/doc/AlterInstallation.md

but people also recommend using NanoDroid

Yes, only foss and built-in aosp things, but nanodroid adds some more apps: https://gitlab.com/Nanolx/NanoDroid/-/blob/master/doc/Applications.md

Stock roms don't have signature spoofing, so you have to patch your rom. Nanodroid contains a patcher wich can do this for you: https://gitlab.com/Nanolx/NanoDroid/

https://gitlab.com/Nanolx/NanoDroid#supported-android-versions

There is a way to get a hacked Google Play store using NanoDroid (and possibly through other means but I'm not sure) that allows you to do in-app purchases, which might make your on-phone experience a little closer to using the stock google play store, but keep in mind that since many back-end services are replaced, not everything might work all the time. But as far as I know, things work pretty well all things considered (which is a huge testament to the quality of work put into this by the devs).