LineageOS is dropping its own superuser implementation, making Magisk the de facto solution

LineageOS 17 will no longer recommend its own addonsu package, making Magisk and Magisk manager the de facto choice for superuser binary and management.

By  Aamir Siddiqui Dec 11, 2019

LineageOS is one of the most popular custom ROMs available for Android devices, if not the most popular custom ROM out there. This custom ROM takes Android as found on the Android Open Source Project (AOSP) and adds its own flavor on top of it. A lot of custom ROMs tend to then adopt LineageOS as their own base, so any major change that LineageOS undertakes for itself tends to propagate throughout the custom ROM community. The developers behind LineageOS are aware of this repercussion and make informed decisions accordingly. The upcoming release of LineageOS is significantly changing how root access is handled, as the ROM is dropping support for its own addonsu binary in favor of Magisk.