This is not true because you need to upgrade your software and patch it to keep it secure, and old hardware does not like newer os versions. Your phone will run more slowly if the os is newer (i believe that’s planned obsolescence in action, though)
I appreciate that the hardware is still good enough functionally, but only if you want a less secure phone.
That’s the fault of the manufacturers. Google does their best to mitigate this but the unfortunate reality is that when Qualcomm drops support you’re going to stop getting updates.
There are efforts to get these phones supported within Linux. When that happens they can just run forever.
My Galaxy S2 actually had more updates than it could handle. While the last useful update had already slowed down the phone somewhat, the last available update was actually completely uninstallable - the portion of Google play services that was required to be installed on the system memory was larger than the entire system memory.
I more than doubled the useful life of that phone by switching to LineageOS / microG.
Chip support is definitely an issue with these devices, but it’s Google that’s running the treadmill.
Galaxy s2 was easily my favourite phone.
Hardcore oled burn in though. Probably because of the RGB pixel structure instead of the pentile that Samsung use for everything else.
old hardware does not like newer os versions
You got that ass-backwards.
that’s planned obsolescence
There ya go.
Yours is a bit of a redundant comment, then right?
In the context of what i was replying to, it made more sense to say the hardware had a problem with the software.
It’s technically true either way, though
But yes, it would have made more sense to say the software doesn’t play ball with the old hardware.
But since it’s intended to be like that, it doesn’t really matter how i say it. The point still gets across.
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
You can install current day Linux Mint on PCs from the Core 2 era, ~15 years old, and it runs like brand new. OS bloat is not inevitable, it is a result of greed.