Google Is Bringing Linux to Android. Here's Why That Matters

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> While iPhones will likely remain the default option for mainstream users,

In what universe is a device that has a 27% market share a "default option"?

iPhone has roughly 60% of the market share in the United States

Often 55-60% in Australia also.

US defaultism I guess. In Europe, iPhones are far from dominating.

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I just want to know what the catch is versus using Termux.. Is this feature going to hoover up all my dotfiles and offer to "summarize" them for me? SSH keys? GPG key ring?

Maybe Apple offers less freedom but it's getting hard to trust Google these days.

The inability to use superuser to access system files from the new linux subsystem and later somehow blocking termux to run, would be an ideal evil plan from Google's perspective.

But this is just running on top of Android, not replacing it. That eliminates a bunch of the benefits. Not all, certainly, but some very important ones, such as being able to be in control of your machine.

Awesome. I usually keep my mobile devices for at least four years and my iphone is less than six months old. I hope Google takes at least another three years to make this actually usable.

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