Year of the linux 14yrs ago? Dude, linux is taking off for sure. Thanks to steam though. Of my 20 machines at home, only 2 are windows (server2025) and just vms.
And there are actual linux-phones. With linux on it. They might not be at their peak yet, but if it gets the basics done, I’m fine. The moment my pixel finally dies, I’ll get one. Screw android (well, screw google, android was fine), and screw apple even more. Closed up walled gardens aren’t my thing. I want to OWN a device not rent it and pay 1500 moneyz to be allowed to use it, and then even pay rent with my data.
As for phones doing things i dont like: no. If an appliance does things i don’t like, i don’t use it or sandbox it or firewall it off. I surveilled graphene for a while now and it really does not send more than it says it does. As for installed apps, that’s my responsibility.
Have to have a “clean” fucking unrooted android-phone for banking- and depot-apps though and one for android-auto. Three phones. So shitty it has become. three expensive stupid phones to do what one should be able to do.
And to clarify, these are linux-kernel distros developed for mobile devices. Previous commenter seemed to care that the Android kernel is based on Linux, even though it’s heavily modified. - “Linux phones” would typically use a much more standard, open-source kernel and driver bundle.
Year of the linux 14yrs ago? Dude, linux is taking off for sure. Thanks to steam though. Of my 20 machines at home, only 2 are windows (server2025) and just vms.
And there are actual linux-phones. With linux on it. They might not be at their peak yet, but if it gets the basics done, I’m fine. The moment my pixel finally dies, I’ll get one. Screw android (well, screw google, android was fine), and screw apple even more. Closed up walled gardens aren’t my thing. I want to OWN a device not rent it and pay 1500 moneyz to be allowed to use it, and then even pay rent with my data.
As for phones doing things i dont like: no. If an appliance does things i don’t like, i don’t use it or sandbox it or firewall it off. I surveilled graphene for a while now and it really does not send more than it says it does. As for installed apps, that’s my responsibility.
Have to have a “clean” fucking unrooted android-phone for banking- and depot-apps though and one for android-auto. Three phones. So shitty it has become. three expensive stupid phones to do what one should be able to do.
And to clarify, these are linux-kernel distros developed for mobile devices. Previous commenter seemed to care that the Android kernel is based on Linux, even though it’s heavily modified. - “Linux phones” would typically use a much more standard, open-source kernel and driver bundle.