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Re:Ask HN: What Linux Desktop Environment do you use on tabl... by satwick1995 on Saturday December 05, 2020 @02:30PM (#25317542)
A question unrelated to the post .. Why would you say that the mounting system doesn't make sense in Android? Not rebuking what you said, just want to understand.
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Re:Ask HN: What Linux Desktop Environment do you use on tabl... by djsumdog on Saturday December 05, 2020 @03:14PM (#25317880)
I detailed one issue I ran into here on this post:

https://android.stackexchange.com/questions/124575/mount-an-...

Looks like some comments were added three years later. The entire mounting system between the Linux command-line/system interface and the Android UI is terrible disconnected and the way to trigger events in one changes in every single release. Having just a knowledge of Linux is not going to help you debug problems with Android.

Android also does a lot of crazy/non-standard SELinux isolation stuff. I do a longer/more complete rant on Android from a few years back here:

https://battlepenguin.com/tech/android-fragmentation/

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