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Android uses the Linux kernel and keeps up with upstream to some extent. macOS uses the XNU kernel. Though as a user that likes having control over the softwa

by Krssst 3y ago

Android uses the Linux kernel and keeps up with upstream to some extent. macOS uses the XNU kernel. Though as a user that likes having control over the software, I recognize that not having GNU/Linux being number one is a bit of a waste. (though one weekend of fighting NVIDIA and wayland tamed that quite a bit. Somehow my DE does not load with the proprietary driver unless I also load nouveau for some strange reason).

charcircuit 3y ago
Android uses the latest LTS kernel and works using a mainline kernel provided mainline supports the hardware you are on. >though one weekend of fighting NVIDIA and wayland Wayland is freedesktop software which is different than GNU.
Krssst 3y ago
> though one weekend of fighting NVIDIA and wayland tamed that quite a bit Looking back on that, this was mostly self-inflicted (used Debian testing rather than stable, and upgraded from Bullseye to Bookworm then to testing rather than clean install). I like twinkering a bit so I don't mind the pain that much but this is absolutely not representative of what new users would experience: my comment was clearly wrong (cannot edit/remove unfortunately). This is not telling at all for regular stable distributions (Debian stable, Fedora). In general I had pretty good experiences with clean installations of those.