Comment on Breaking: Google is easing up on Android's new sideloading restrictions!
tehmics@lemmy.world 19 hours agoIt doesn’t matter, you fork into something else entirely. It’s a hell of a lot easier to leverage the android ecosystems in a diverging fork than it is to build a whole new niche platform
communist@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 15 hours ago
Linux mobile will be harder to build but in the long run will be vastly better, but it’s admittedly a very long run.
tehmics@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
This makes no sense. Anything you can build Linux into, you can do the same to android
communist@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 10 hours ago
That’s true, but android has some pretty fundamental issues that would take some massive rewrites to fully resolve, not to mention that if we switched to linux patches wouldn’t have to be written for multiple operating systems.