▲ 606 ▼ Free Software Foundation announces a Librephone initiative to develop a fully free and open source smartphone (liliputing.com) submitted 1 year ago by tal@olio.cafe to c/linuxphones@lemmy.ca 75 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[+] Samskara@sh.itjust.works 1 point 1 year ago (2 children) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] qqq@lemmy.world 1 point 1 year ago* (1 child) I'm not sure I agree that 2005 was the proverbial "Year or the Linux Desktop": I remember all the WiFi driver hell in the late 2000s, but let's say that was when Linux became a valid competitor because it's close enough. That's 10 years after Windows 95! That only furthers my point, but it does show that the phone progress seems to be slower by comparison. All of this is assuming we leave out Android of course. In my personal experience I dual booted until around 2010 permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment load more comments (1 reply)
[–] qqq@lemmy.world 1 point 1 year ago* (1 child) I'm not sure I agree that 2005 was the proverbial "Year or the Linux Desktop": I remember all the WiFi driver hell in the late 2000s, but let's say that was when Linux became a valid competitor because it's close enough. That's 10 years after Windows 95! That only furthers my point, but it does show that the phone progress seems to be slower by comparison. All of this is assuming we leave out Android of course. In my personal experience I dual booted until around 2010 permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment load more comments (1 reply)