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All other things held fixed, it would. Unfortunately, other things are not held fixed; proper unixy[0] Linux phones today are either 1. devices designed for tha
by yjftsjthsd-h 2y ago
All other things held fixed, it would. Unfortunately, other things are not held fixed; proper unixy[0] Linux phones today are either 1. devices designed for that case, which are underpowered hardware and/or really expensive, or 2. devices not designed for that case (generally devices that shipped with Android) which have fairly awful hardware support.
[0] If you have a better way to describe both GNU/Linux and Alpine derivatives, I'm all ears, but postmarketos is arguably the biggest player in this space and it's not GNU/Linux so I'm a bit stuck.
- fsflover 2y ago> underpowered hardware https://puri.sm/posts/the-danger-of-focusing-on-specs/ https://puri.sm/posts/the-danger-of-focusing-on-specs/
- yjftsjthsd-h 2y agoI dunno... the first time I read that, I interpreted it as "yes our hardware is weak but please ignore that", and reading it again it still rather feels like that. Yes, GNU/Linux has better/lighter software that can get more life out of weaker hardware, but... well, I wouldn't run firefox on 3GB of RAM on my Linux laptop if I could help it; I see no reason to suddenly treat it as reasonable just because the form factor is different.
- fsflover 2y agoYou're not wrong. But this reply was submitted with my Librem 5 and Firefox. It's performance is far from top Android phones, but it pretty usable, especially with NoScript.