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MS keeps making Windows worse but that is not a problem because Linux is great on PCs. The reason is that PC is made out of standardized plug&play components that you can make generic OS image for.

There is no such thing in smartphone world. Each chipset is it’s own Linux fork that gets only most crucial bug fixes while in warranty. Same is true for ARM SBCs where I believe the only board that supports generic image are new RPis.

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Natanael@infosec.pub ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Both ARM itself and Linux for ARM has been standardizing a fair bit recently. But not to the extent to be fully generic, mostly just enough for portable bootable kernels - and after that you still need all the same custom drivers and configurations to make proper use of a SoC, but it’s not nothing.

linuxgizmos.com/ebbr-spec-to-bring-standardizatio…

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- majster@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  The article is 7 years old. Has anything come to fruition since then?
  
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  - Natanael@infosec.pub ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    Last update in December
    
    github.com/ARM-software/ebbr/releases
    
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flop_leash_973@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

The reason is that PC is made out of standardized plug&play components that you can make generic OS image for.

Yep, given the history of consumer technology as a whole it is really more amazing that the standard PC became a thing more than it is that people put up with what phones are today.

We all really owe a lot of gratitude to Phoenix for reverse engineering the IBM BIOS back in the day, and going to court to fight the IBM copyright lawsuit that resulted, as well as Compaq and all of the other IBM compatible clones.

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