@[email protected] to [email protected] • 8 months ago"But my friend runs a PinePhone as a daily driver"lemmy.mlmessage-square382fedilinkarrow-up11.15K
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minus-squarelinuxgatorlinkEnglish5•8 months agoGNU/Linux phones may not be, but Android/Linux is quite usable. Jesus should know the difference.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink3•8 months agoWhen Android was still new, lots of people thought of it as “Linux for phones”.
minus-squarelinuxgatorlinkEnglish1•8 months agoThey weren’t wrong. Linux technically is the kernel. The toolkits used to build the apps are really what most people think of when they use the term though.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink1•7 months agoBut it’s not the same Linux kernel that we use on desktop.
minus-squarelinuxgatorlinkEnglish1•7 months agoThat’s the beauty of the Linux kernel, it can be stripped, modified, etc to suit its intended purpose.
GNU/Linux phones may not be, but Android/Linux is quite usable. Jesus should know the difference.
When Android was still new, lots of people thought of it as “Linux for phones”.
They weren’t wrong. Linux technically is the kernel. The toolkits used to build the apps are really what most people think of when they use the term though.
But it’s not the same Linux kernel that we use on desktop.
That’s the beauty of the Linux kernel, it can be stripped, modified, etc to suit its intended purpose.