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Brave to say such controversial things in a Linux community!
lol, "now"
Linux has been good for at least 20 years for everything but Microsoft Flight Simulator and Adobe anything
My many hours spent fighting GPU and WiFi drivers and getting sleep to work properly on laptops just 10 years ago beg to differ lmao
Buy compatible hardware. I never hear about windows not working on some random laptop only because the hardware manufacturer wrote fucking drivers for windows.
"Oh no! I put diesel fuel in my gasoline car and now it doesn't run!"
GTFO with that shit
It's funny to frame it as bravery. Maybe that's clickbait strategy. Regardless desktop Linux is great. Only a handful of kernel level anticheat games are a problem. No you don't need adobe suite for your YouTube, Instagram, Tiktok influencer aspirations. Even open source applications that don't stack up to Adobe or Avid or whatever exceed what's needed to succeed in social media. More than enough for what amounts to solo projects
Wish there was a way to switch my phone to Linux without it having to be a new hobby to learn.
Yeah, if you have a Pixel, GrapheneOS looks to be the least complicated, but it's still daunting. I haven't tried it yet.
I'm going to attempt to kindly countermand this, there is a web installer for chrome based browsers that I believe anyone intelligent enough to navigate the fediverse can step through easily enough.
The base install with play services enabled is a stock android experience all things considered; the extra features and additional security are there for those that want to engage with it.
That is my push to get you going. =)
I've done this with an old Pixel (partly to wipe the phone, and partly as a hope that if it's refurbished/resold, the new owner will have Graphene). If you can read and follow a recipe, it's virtually stupid-proof. I don't remember having to know anything for which the directions didn't specify or offer explicit directions.
That is a kind gesture to the new owner, good on you!
I echo Hominine's comments - the most difficult part of installing GrapheneOS is getting your hands on Pixel hardware (for a good price).
Graphene is still Android, which is only tangentially Linux at this point. PostmarketOS is more a proper Linux phone (there are a few others but that one seems to be the most along version to date). It does boot on certain models but even the best ones are a bit finicky still.
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