Re:Will Linux phones stay around this time?
by swiley on Sunday May 02, 2021 @11:06AM
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Android is:
Incredibly heavy and slow
Very hard to hack on
A pretty mediocre OS (lots of functionality is just missing or poorly implemented.)
Uses a driver model that encourages closed drivers (this means it never gets updates after Qualcomm stops releasing updates to their BSP)
A tool used by Google to force computing to be the way they want.
Really the only nice things about Android is the sandbox (which you don't need often on Linux because all the software is community maintained anyway) and the sleep features (doze, which takes a very small amount of work to re-implement at least on OpenRC and push notifications but Firefox already has that anyway.)
Incredibly heavy and slow
Very hard to hack on
A pretty mediocre OS (lots of functionality is just missing or poorly implemented.)
Uses a driver model that encourages closed drivers (this means it never gets updates after Qualcomm stops releasing updates to their BSP)
A tool used by Google to force computing to be the way they want.
Really the only nice things about Android is the sandbox (which you don't need often on Linux because all the software is community maintained anyway) and the sleep features (doze, which takes a very small amount of work to re-implement at least on OpenRC and push notifications but Firefox already has that anyway.)