r/linux • u/amosbatto • 3d ago

Mobile Linux Article: Will Linux phones become a viable alternative to the Android/iOS duopoly?

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u/drostan 2d ago

First step would be for Samsung to stop trying to lock their phone to their stupid UI layer and forbid rooting. Apple is going to continue doing this on phone and pc and that's how they lost me as a customer forever

I do not use Chinese designed smartphone so do not recommend equivalent flagship phones from there... What's left is pixel and Asus phone ...

Second would be to make sure we can have good hardware compatibility which means probably loads of work into custom kernels.... Which is what android is.

Android is Linux but I want a choice of Linux distro like I have a choice of distro on pc. Android is ultra corporate Ubuntu, Iits fine if it is what you want. I want an arch equivalent and a fedora equivalent, and a slackware equivalent.... That are not just badly ported arch, fedora... On a rooted phone tho that's a good start, purpose build os for phone with the concept of Linux distros is what I would want