Re:Google Is Forcing Me to Dump a Perfectly Good Phone
by ecdouvhr on Tuesday January 25, 2022 @01:43PM
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Installing Linux is often far easier than installing Windows nowadays, and multiple distributions offer long-time support. It's an excellent way of getting more life out of semi-old systems.
Re:Google Is Forcing Me to Dump a Perfectly Good Phone
by tablespoon on Tuesday January 25, 2022 @02:13PM
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> Installing Linux is often far easier than installing Windows nowadays, and multiple distributions offer long-time support.
Even if that's true, most computer users don't install Windows. It comes preinstalled.
> It's an excellent way of getting more life out of semi-old systems.
Maybe so, but it's not nearly as good of an option as getting continued support for your preinstalled OS.
Re:Google Is Forcing Me to Dump a Perfectly Good Phone
by ecdouvhr on Wednesday January 26, 2022 @12:27PM
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Both are valid points, but you did write that Linux is harder to install and maintain. I disagree on those two points.
Pre-installed with a decent support plan is hard to beat regardless if it's Windows, MacOS or something like Linux Mint.
So? The problem is both Linux and a Custom ROM take a few orders of magnitude more technical skill and effort to install and maintain, which is completely unreasonable to expect from a typical non-hobbyist retail technology user. Such users should be able to click "update" on their system, get up-to-date with patches, so they can go on to do what really want to do (which probably isn't "maintain their technology"). I'm even someone who's capable of doing that, but I don't want to because I've got much better and more important things do with my time now.