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I’m not sure this holds up, though. I could install Ubuntu latest on any random laptop from 2005 right now with zero issues. What exactly makes mobile special?
by ramesh31 4y ago
I’m not sure this holds up, though. I could install Ubuntu latest on any random laptop from 2005 right now with zero issues.
What exactly makes mobile special?
- yjftsjthsd-h 4y agoPCs nearly-universally use standardized interfaces, phones go hard on cost cutting and everyone ships their own badly-done drivers that are never upstreamed running on custom hardware that wouldn't run a "standard" image if you had one. Or more succinctly, because phones won the race to the bottom.
- asddubs 4y agothe drivers generally do not get upstreamed by the vendors
- palata 4y agoMy guess would be that the OEMs don't mainline their patches. At least from what I understood looking at PostmarketOS, they spend a lot of energy mainlining those devices they support. I guess it's different for laptops, somehow.