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KDE Plasma Mobile — The Dev Log: April 2024 - June 2025
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The base for Android is also Linux. But there is another layer. That is AOSP, which is comparable to your distro, then there's another layer of your UI (ie: MIUI, One UI, Nothing UI, Pixel UI, etc) which is comparable to your DE on Linux.
That second layer is what they're referring to. Currently everyone is just playing with the third layer (the DE), to my knowledge.
Isn't that the UI layer they was referring to? I would think that the AOSP layer as summarized by balsoft is the solid base, which in Plasma mobile is GNU/Linux plus some basic stuff in the DE.
AOSP is more than your distro, it's like the combination of all the gubbins that make your desktop computer work - rendering layer, compositor, unified device interfaces (like bluetooth or the battery), network management, audio, etc; whereas a typical Linux distro is simply a combination of all these already existing things.
It's just an analogy to get the point across. These details aren't really important.