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Re:/e/OS is a complete "deGoogled", mobile ecosystem by jaggs on Monday March 02, 2026 @07:02AM (#47216918)
If mobile Linux runs through the same kind of tortuous adoption and rejection cycle that desktop Linux is still doing, then it's a non starter before it begins.
Re:/e/OS is a complete "deGoogled", mobile ecosystem by seba_dos1 on Monday March 02, 2026 @07:23AM (#47217106)
I've been happily using it on several phones since 2008 (and writing this on one of them right now), only two years shorter than on my desktops/laptops. "Non-starter" is in the eye of the beholder.
Re:/e/OS is a complete "deGoogled", mobile ecosystem by fsflover on Monday March 02, 2026 @09:11AM (#47218173)
> that desktop Linux is still doing

What are you even talking about? My non-technical relatives have been using Debian for many years already.

Re:/e/OS is a complete "deGoogled", mobile ecosystem by jaggs on Monday March 02, 2026 @10:13AM (#47219001)
:) Regrettably, that's not the mass adoption we were all hoping for.
Re:/e/OS is a complete "deGoogled", mobile ecosystem by fsflover on Tuesday March 03, 2026 @06:14PM (#47240481)
But it is a path to it.