Android has to be the worst version of Linux there is
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It's so fucking bad. It's actually worse than Windows.
Says won't use anything made by Linus Torvalds. Uses Git.
“Linux is superior, i am in full control and free to use my device however”
has an iphone
It's not like there are actual Linux alternatives on the phone market
PostmarketOS is an Alpine distro packaged as a mobile OS. Full phat Linux on a smart phone.
I've never owned an iPhone, but it's not like Android is the land of freedom
Android is hardly linux and is also bad.
But Android is a Linux... Not GNU/Linux, but neither is Alpine.
And OSX is a BSD but nobody i ntheir right mind would consider it a BSD distro.
OSX is UNIX, built on BSD foundations but not BSD.
Android on the other hand IS Linux, and is distributed. So I say, it's a Linux distribution.
All other things that people mention as qualifying for a Linux distro are either GNU libs (which alpine doesn't have) or POSIX/UNIX way of doing things, which would disqualify Android from being POSIX compliant but not from being a Linux distro.
I'm gonna be real here I don't care.
Understandable, have a good day!
I wouldn't say it's bad per se, but getting worse. If they go through with their app developer verification thing then it will definitively cross the threshold from "thin fucking ice" to shit
Android is frustrating with the way it limits you from doing what you want within the os.
says linux is bad but uses the world-wide web 🤭
says linux is bad but uses a microwave
Says Linux is bad but uses toaster.
Says Linux is bad but uses a toaster without a license
linux sucks because i was promsed a cute penguin but instead got some blue triangle????
You got a blue triangle?
I got a blue butthole
Man I have to settle for a purple thing with a hole in it, I don't even know what it is
Who says linux is bad? At worst people say it's too hard for them to use at home, but i never heard someone say it's bad.
I’ve heard people make the argument that Linux is bad because it’s too hard to use.
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Typical Linux distributions are almost objectively harder to use than Android. I'd be surprised if anyone really disagrees with this. When someone complains about Linux being hard to use, it's the POSIX-based Linux distributions that must support arbitrary hardware (often poorly so) that they refer to. I don't need to care about installing NVidia drivers and whether they're compatible with EFI handover when I buy an Android phone.
Typical Linux distributions are almost objectively harder to use than Android
So are Windows and macOS.
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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.
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
please let me in I beg of thee
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Usually people who installed it yesterday and are mad it doesn’t behave exactly like the OS they’ve been using for the last 20 years (which they also had to learn how to use)
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"Linux is bad", because it doesn't provide have data collection and transfer to shady corporations with large PR umbrellas, out of the box.
Now just need to add this as a Kernel module and ship the binary as the default for a distro.
Microsoft Linux 11
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