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[–] Turret3857@infosec.pub 9 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (2 children)

You do need to worry about whether or not your phone is locked to a specific carrier and if its the carrier you want to use the phone with. or, if its a phone you want to bring to another network, you have to figure our if you need to argue with your current carrier to get it unlocked.

To piggyback off this, Windows is also "harder" than Android. You need to reinstall Windows due to an update fuckup? You tried building your own PC? Well, you either fork.over $120 for an installation media, or you have to create your own, then learn how to boot into the BIOS to boot from that media, then you need to scour the internet for not only your Nvidia driver, but your audio driver, WiFi driver, integrated graphics driver (if you have and want to use an IGPU) and possibly motherboard drivers if your mobo has some odd implementation that requires a driver for USB 3.1 to work properly.

None of these operating systems are "harder" than another. You are just used to one over the other. You don't use your automatic transmission car skills trying to drive a manual transmission, unless your goal is to crash and burn.

[–] Encephalotrocity@feddit.online 4 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

You do need to worry about whether or not your phone is locked to a specific carrier and if its the carrier you want to use the phone with

Laughs in Canadian

[–] ramasses@social.ozymandias.club 2 points 8 hours ago

Cries in us, its horrible

[–] Turret3857@infosec.pub 1 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

please let me in I beg of thee

[–] variablenine@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 10 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Turret3857@infosec.pub 1 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

massgrave proves my point. The user has to go out of their way to find and run that script.

Linux would just work ootb. No activation needed. Ergo; Linux is easier than Windows.

It's poor form to say an apple tastes worse than an orange because its purely opinion. Theres no fact. I was trying to show the original reply is nonsensical, because for some, Android is harder than Linux. Android may not be what someone is used to.