Best guide to rooting the galaxy nexus

[Jst_In_Tme]

Can anyone point me in the direction of the best rooting guide for the gn? I am got really used to the ease of the fascinate with odin. However, I am not too familiar with the gn.

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[rayhodge02]

wugs would be the easiest

[doubleblackD]

Wug's Nexus Root Toolkit v1.6.3 [Updated 02/24/13] This is what i used, very easy to follow, are you good on making backups? Nandroid? CWM? Just asking cuz i dont want you to get to far ahead of yourself ya know....i did lol....alot of very experienced peeps here too, very helpful!

[rayhodge02]

read it first don't do it while your reading for the first time...

[Kdog]

Go with Wugs. I used it last night and work flawless for me. Just take your time. Follow all the steps. And be patient. It works great!

Double tapped from my rooted Galaxy Nexus!

[Jst_In_Tme]

I am familiar with nandroid backups through cwm and can figure out rom and kernel installation. I was seeing some command prompts too root and wasnt sure if that was the best way.

[rayhodge02]

Me I love the sdk...adb but thats me

[Jst_In_Tme]

Is the program for the computer from the wugs directions mac compatible or just pc?

[abvenbyond]

Wugs is meant only for pc
if youre a mac user like myself, you can use the guide provided here on this forum.
Unlock bootloader and root using a Mac - instructions - credit creaky at DF

droid-life's article was also handy when returning back to stock.
How to: Unroot the Galaxy Nexus, Re-lock the Bootloader and Return to a Factory State – Droid Life

Some tips to keep in mind while using mac's terminal would be to enter
cd/User/
and find your abd, fastboot, platform tools folder to change directory to so you can input terminal commands.
In order to use the droid-life article in terminal, simply add ./ before typing a command.

[Jst_In_Tme]

Thank you. I am going to try out the mac way first since my pc takes years to download files. What is the best rom for the gn right now? Has there been any cyanogenmod develpments or MIUI?