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We should push other phone OEM's such as Fairphone and Samsung to work with PostmarketOS, GrapheneOS, and Ubuntu Touch (www.extremetech.com)
submitted 6 months ago by to c/opensource@lemmy.ml
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Its always good to try!

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[–] 7 points 6 months ago (3 children)

How come Linux worked on desktop but on phones it is having such a hard time even tho Android has the linux kernel( i think).

Is PC hardware more open and known to everyone about everything while mobile dosent? And if that is the case then why arent phone opening itself for support?

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  • [–] 15 points 6 months ago* (1 child)

    Because ARM is a fucking mess. Each device has it's own way of booting. There's no standard like UEFI or BIOS.

    Plus you need propreitary code for modem to support 2G, 3G, 4G....etc. which are complicated to implement.

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago

    so, Linux does work, a lot of stuff works. There is nothing fundamentally different about phones other than them basically all running on ARM instead of x86, which is more common for PCs. More development of stuff for X86 Linux than ARM Linux, although less of a difference than there use to be.

    Really the issue is proprietary stuff built on top of android and IOS. Stuff that a lot of useful apps rely on for security and functionality. For instance banking apps are super locked down for obvious reasons, but the standards that have been adopted by the industry for mobile banking are all entangled with proprietary close source stuff.

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