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Anyone using a Linux Smarphone?
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I have been waiting for 10 years or more. And it still isn't. It will never be unfortunately.
I do think it will move way faster the shitter android gets.
Facts. At first there was such an enthusiastic Android crowd who was having so much fun with it. (Not to mention contributing TONS of free labor and promotion.)
And now Google is just saying "NO! NOT YOURS! WE'RE GREEN APPLE NOW!"
I hope those actual genius nerds who love user-centric tech accelerate an alternative just out of sheer spite at this point.
Tbh I would love to tinker around with my 3-year-old phone and get something working (I believe it was running Android 12 on last update), but I don't necessarily have the time, willingness, or even knowledge of where to start. I'm a hobbyist programmer who mostly does full-stack web development these days with a sprig of application programming on Desktop. I've never even tried to go into mobile tech, and when I did, it was for small things like a Raspberry Pi which is essentially an ARM computer that can run mostly anything an AMD computer can. Phones aren't like that.
Really, its a function of how many of us give these companies money to buy their hardware
So, yeah, the shittier android gets, the more of us jump ship. The more of us jump ship, the better the ecosystem becomes.
Eh they said that about desktop Linux not that long ago