Because Android is miles ahead in terms of security, permission management, app separation, power management, privacy...
Linux crowd can not even agree on compositor, and if systemd or sudo is a good idea.
Linux crowd can not even agree on compositor, and if systemd or sudo is a good idea.
This is actually a feature.
I think "linux smartphone" would end up looking very similar -- some UI on top of a kernel with a very non-LSB userspace; therefore the concept is really not all that compelling
But take that far enough and you get Stallman'd into a corner where someone points out that's great, but no phone for you.
Especially in this political climate it’s insane to recommend people switch to a phone OS that can be pwned via hardware or software means in virtually zero time versus something like GOS + a Pixel or an iPhone.
The hardware and software security of Android/iOS/iPadOS/GOS devices are leagues ahead of Linux servers in all aspects and it’s not even close (but they also serve different purposes so to some extent I’m not sure how 1:1 this comparison is). However, this discussion focuses on desktop style Linux distros which is what these phones are running which have inadequate security. Desktop Linux is inferior security-wise to a server environment where each process/app is running as it’s own user etc. Desktop-style Linux phones also have virtually zero hardware security versus the alternatives.
It doesn’t matter if a user knows what they are doing. For example installing so-called “trusted” apps means they’re only trustworthy at that moment in time and not forward-looking. All it takes is one supply chain or runtime security exploit. Software security is also extremely poor with a lack of comprehensive sandboxing and so on, I would just read the grapheneos accounts replies on here since they’re writing entire novels on this.
I mean even GrapheneOS shows how relevant this is with Samuel Tunick, on the front page today. If he’d had a desktop Linux phone that was seized from him while in AFU, sure it would be “private” but there would be virtually nothing stopping officials from running through his entire phone since so many of these desktop Linux distros rely on poor security elements if any on top of FDE with LUKS so your entire device is basically exposed and unencrypted after the first unlock.
This whole comment was borderline stream of consciousness so I apologize if anything is unclear here.