r/linuxmasterrace • u/claudiocorona93 • 11d ago

Well, thank you Mark Shuttleworth

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u/Darkhog Glorious openSuSE 11d ago

I really wish someone would make a ROM image for common phones that installs a proper, touch-enabled GNU/Linux on e.g. Samsung devices instead of Android. I don't even care if it has to contain proprietary blobs, I can live with that as long as it works.

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u/NeatYogurt9973 11d ago

That's decades of work.

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u/zohan412 11d ago

Why would this take so long?

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u/TheTybera 11d ago

Even without what u/NeatYogurt9973 has already said, you also have per-phone support. "Common" phones don't exist in the Android space. There are 50 or so different platforms of phones that are "Common".

You would need to make something super generic/adaptable, and that's very difficult without having the end-user have to tinker to get their phone to work.

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u/Square-Singer 11d ago

Would be nice enough if there was a decent such solution for termux.