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Linux distros for phones - PinePhone, Librem, or even hackable Android phones like Pixel 3a - exist and depending on your usecase are... mature enough to use as
by inawarminister 5y ago
Linux distros for phones - PinePhone, Librem, or even hackable Android phones like Pixel 3a - exist and depending on your usecase are... mature enough to use as a daily driver.
As long as you avoid platform lock-in apps anyway.
Again, very dependant on your usecase.
- danaris 5y agoYeah, they're really not. Not for average people. And I 100% guarantee you that if a Linux-based phone did become popular, it would have every major privacy issue Android does now—including, in many cases, Google getting access to stuff, because most people will want their Gmail, Google Photos, etc to be accessible through the phone. I know people think this decision of Apple's is somehow way worse than anything anyone else in the industry is doing, but...how, exactly? When it's literally the same thing the other players in the industry are doing, just in a way that attempts to preserve user privacy in a technologically meaningful (if ideologically impure) way...