Comment on Smartphones are Designed to Fail Us (and We Have to Change That)
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
Software side too: Linux’s deliberate choice to not have a stable driver interface is detrimental to atomic distros with the usually shitty proprietary vendor drivers. Causing you to get no updates after a few years or get a new device.
Which is why i think BSD would have been a better fit for Android.
squaresinger@lemmy.world 1 month ago
BSD would have been a much better fit for many reasons. It was just started with Linux for mostly irrelevant reasons, and then it was too hard to switch away.
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
Licensing, among others. Google doesn’t like the GPL.
squaresinger@lemmy.world 1 month ago
That’s probably the biggest reason why pretty much everyone else uses BSD.