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I love the SteamDeck, but I don't consider it a mobile phone. It can be a decent Linux Desktop, I think, and it's great for games. But that is a very different
by palata 1y ago
I love the SteamDeck, but I don't consider it a mobile phone. It can be a decent Linux Desktop, I think, and it's great for games.
But that is a very different use-case than a mobile phone. Android/iOS are very much optimised to behave like smartphones, e.g. in terms of battery usage and security model. People complain about not having root access, while installing read-only Linux systems on their desktop.
Really, the best shot we have at an alternative OS is to build on top of AOSP. And there you could actually convince OEMs to support you. At least I hope GrapheneOS eventually gets there.
- Bender 1y agoHave GrapheneOS devs opened it up so it can run on something other than a Pixel?
- palata 1y agoWell it's open source. And you can use AOSP, or LineageOS, or CalyxOS, or /e/OS. I used /e/OS before moving to GrapheneOS (when I changed phone), and /e/OS runs on tons of devices, but they just don't get full updates. So you end up running with a device that hasn't received vendor security updates for years, which is worse than just using Stock Android. At least GrapheneOS does not support many devices (for good reasons), but the ones they support, they support really well.