> Don't smartphones... kind of suck? Yes, but so do normal computers, just in different ways. Android and iOS both greatly restrict user freedom, sure. But th

> Don't smartphones... kind of suck? Yes, but so do normal computers, just in different ways. Android and iOS both greatly restrict user freedom, sure. But they're both far easier to use than Linux, and "just work" way more of the time. Yeah, neither mobile OS can do packages or shared libraries - but at least they can't get stuck in an inconsistent state, like apt. The toolchains for Android/iOS are absolutely abysmal - but the OSes themselves come with a capability-based security model that is infinitely better than what's available on Linux. All software is bad. (although, to the other point of "phone hardware has bad longevity" - yes, that's completely correct)