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  • razen@lemmy.world
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    9 days ago

    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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      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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        7 days ago

        Would that be a good focus? To get a unified standard for ARM developed to get many devs together to make software/OS’es for it and adapt phones to use those OS’3#

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      9 days ago

      @razen @viov The “mobile computing” was organized probably by some really dark circles of the big USA eavesdropping/world police line. It was not at all about that you have a linux (osx) on your phone. IT WAS ABOUT REPLACING THE FREE PC WORLD BY A CONTROLLED SLAVE ONE. We sucked it.

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        9 days ago

        That’s really sad, so basically until and unless companies make open drivers there is nothing we as a consumer can do tbh. I dont really think Qualcomm or MediiaTek will ever do that. And cellular things like 4g and 5g are the least one to be open ever.