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Do you dislike your dependency on Android? To the rescue comes Mobile Linux "PostmarketOS" - Funded via Donations (link to 2025 Priorities -> Focus on Reliabilty, Audi, Camera, etc) (postmarketos.org)
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A notable mention is https://ubports.com/en/ which is different from postmarketos in a sense that ubports uses old kernels with heavy patches. That means: good support for things, but difficult future.

PostmarketOS uses the newest kernels and tries to integrate their patches into mainline kernel, so that the reliability is maintained with all kernel developers.

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[-] Ulrich@feddit.org 7 points 4 months ago

I mean probably never? You'd have to design hardware specifically that's compatible with Linux, which would cost a fortune, in the hopes of selling a whole bunch of them, and they can't even get large numbers of people to use Linux for free.

[-] Feyd@programming.dev 19 points 4 months ago

You’d have to design hardware specifically that’s compatible with Linux

What makes you think that?

[-] Ulrich@feddit.org 4 points 4 months ago

I don't know how to answer that. Because most hardware is not compatible.

[-] Feyd@programming.dev 9 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

The only thing that is lacking for compatibility is drivers. If that's what you meant you should have said so instead of saying hardware needs to be designed. If that's not what you meant then you don't know what you're talking about.

[-] Ulrich@feddit.org 0 points 4 months ago

If the hardware doesn't have drivers then it's incompatible 🤷

[-] Feyd@programming.dev 7 points 4 months ago

You're just embarrassing yourself at this point.

[-] Ulrich@feddit.org 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Explain how I'm wrong or go away. Your unwarranted personal insults are not welcome.

[-] Feyd@programming.dev 12 points 4 months ago

EZ. Your original totally incorrect comment that you're trying to pretend didn't mean what it obviously meant.

You’d have to design hardware specifically that’s compatible with Linux

You don't have to design hardware you have to write drivers.

It's OK to admit you're wrong.

[-] Ulrich@feddit.org 1 points 4 months ago

I'm not pretending anything. And I'm not gonna continue engaging with you with this completely unnecessary tone. You don't know what you're talking about. Goodbye.

[-] Feyd@programming.dev 11 points 4 months ago

If you're so sensitive to being corrected the easy way to avoid it is to simply not create misinformation in the first place.

[-] rice@lemmy.org 2 points 4 months ago

they already exist, the (software) interface is what needs work.

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