Who is running 4.4?

No idea what you meant by that. Which AOSP ROM are you comparing it to? All 4.4 custom ROMs are in such early stages that it's not even worth the comparison.

Nope head over to XDA, I've been running custom 4.4 for week before today and they were are running very well.

One thing you don't get with the AOSP is the dialer with locales search and Google caller ID.

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The one posted in Jerry's thread, I think it was the first port. I just disliked with the ports the Google Apps werent integrated as well (mainly as their owned by gooe and you have to reinstall etc / I dislkle 2 browsers etc)

I find if you have the n5 launcher its nice with the transparent bar, one peeve is it changes from 5 apps wide to 4 but I can get used to that.

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Anyone using the new gel apk? I'm having some flaky behavior with the top transparent nav bar. For example, it stays black for an instant after I hide the notifications shade. It's not a big deal but I didn't notice this with the n5 port.

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