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What is the advantage of a Linux phone over something like LineageOS?
by daoboy 1y ago
What is the advantage of a Linux phone over something like LineageOS?
- jwrallie 1y agoIf things keep going in the direction they are, there might not be a LineageOS at some point, and developing a useful alternative before that (Linux based) would be great.
- em-bee 1y agoso we fork and continue to work on lineageOS. why start from scratch? (i mean, it's nice to have alternatives, but there is no reason not to continue developing an android fork.
- Telaneo 1y agoWorking on LineageOS doesn't help you if you can't even install it. Fewer and fewer phones come with unlockable bootloaders these days. The grip is tightening.
- pavon 1y agoYes, but if you are building your own phone hardware to run Linux on it, there is a huge advantage in that Linux flavor being an AOSP fork, since it is already mature.
- j45 1y agoWhile that's a viable option as something some people can do, it will be for the few in general, not the many.
- em-bee 1y agoright, but if you can't install a custom android, you can't install anything linux based or anything else for that matter. so that's a different issue entirely.
- beeflet 1y agoYou can run normal linux desktop and server programs with no limitations. The development and driver support is not guided by google.