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> we will see a viable, widely used Linux based phone in the next 3 years Isn't there already a viable, widely used Linux based phone OS called Android?
by reverius42 7mo ago
> we will see a viable, widely used Linux based phone in the next 3 years
Isn't there already a viable, widely used Linux based phone OS called Android?
- gzread 7mo agoLinux the kernel, not Linux the desktop OS
- HaZeust 7mo agoHis comment stands?
- dpark 7mo agoRight, but you’re presumably not going to run Linux the desktop OS on your phone. You’re going to run a mobile OS and the Linux kernel.
- gzread 7mo agoWhy not? It works fine on pine devices.
- dpark 7mo agoI guess I’m not clear what the point would be. I suppose you could build a phone that uses more of the gnu ecosystem than Android does, but you’re not going to run desktop apps on your phone because none of them are made for the phone. It would be a bad experience. So it becomes (Desktop) Linux for (Desktop) Linux’s sake.
- Arainach 7mo agoEvery long term review of Pine devices I've read ends with ".... so I ended up going back to my previous platform"
- yonatan8070 7mo agoThe point isn't "run the Linux kernel on a phone", the point is "run an non-big-tech OS that respects the user's privacy and choices". See also Google's recent announcement regarding locking down Android app installation to "protect users"
- Arainach 7mo agoThat's not what was said here, though - and also not something that's going to become a viable major platform. The folks who care about privacy can't agree on the definition of a privacy respecting phone, so whatever you make some of them will be unhappy. 99.9% users care way more about price, availability of apps, and hardware, in that order. App developers will only write apps for the platform once it has sufficient users, and users will only switch if the platform has sufficient apps.