This was the issue I had doing anything interesting on Android in the past. It just randomly kills things so you can't do much more serious stuff than web browsing/social media on it.

I suppose normal GNU/Linux might have this issue as well if you run an OS with lots of background services that randomly consume large amounts of RAM or if your desktop environment does. I don't so outside of kind of insane environments like raspberry pi zeros or weird situations on servers I don't typically run into this. (and no. It's not 2010, phones are normal PCs not a weird embedded environment.)