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Have you ever been disappointed with Linux? (libretechni.ca)
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Personally I haven't. While Linux is imperfect, choosing the right distro makes the rest of the experience straightforward. And with it's whole complexity, I find Linux more user friendly than Windows. Even driver issues, broken shadow file ownership and KDE specifics only made me more confident about my choice to use Linux after I solved everything.

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[–] pelya@lemmy.world 4 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

I am deeply disappointed in the Android flavor of Linux. 17 years of development, and your phone still does not have a terminal app built into the OS.

[–] quick_snail@feddit.nl 3 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

Also lack of cron is extremely limiting

[–] irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

It does have one built in, you just have to enable it in developer settings

[–] pelya@lemmy.world 2 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Available only on select Pixel phones, and the virtualization API that makes it possible is available only to preinstalled system apps.

So no, you cannot install Ubuntu image onto your Samsung phone, you specifically need to buy the newest Pixel.

[–] irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

You can use termux and some other thing to run Ubuntu on a Samsung, it's just not built in Iirc Samsung has some Linux thing with dex

[–] pelya@lemmy.world 1 points 12 hours ago

Yeah I can, but soon I won't, because Google will block all apps not installed from Play Store, and Termux cannot be compiled for new Android versions because of Android 'security'