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Why can't you change your phones OS? 2017-05-15 04:05:02 Post No. 60408974
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Hey, reddit. There's been a question on my mind for a very long time. On PC, nearly every OS (well, except OSX) magically seems to work with every Hardware. I've had Windows XP, 7 and now Ubuntu 14.04 and 16.04 on one (very old) Notebook, and there doesn't seem to be an issue with it. Why is it that you don't get the same freedom with your smartphone? I know that you can install Ubuntu Mobile (yeah, that was a thing) on third party devices, but only select ones, but aside I've never seen anyone giving away/selling licences for Android or Windows10M. Basically your smartphone seems to be locked to the OS you buy it with.
Microsoft recently dropped support for a bunch of windows phones, and I've already mentioned Ubuntu only being supported by a handful of devices. Is it a hardware issue? Is there simply no money in the market? What does everybody think (or know) about this?
Sorry for the long post, but I'm really curious about this.
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>>60408974
Reddit your mom.
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Well it is supported, but nobody is actually doing it since ricing Android to be an ungoogled piece of shit that just hosts a VM and an X server is way easier
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>>60408974
Because phone manufacturers don't make their drivers available for every OS and don't make them open source. You can't have an OS without drivers. On PC manufacturers do release drivers for Windows and Linux.
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>>60408974
Hey rabbit
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>>60408974
Should be in stupid questions thread. But ARM platforms tend to lack the basic BIOS and OS lack the basic generic drivers to run on just about anything like x86 does.
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drivers
the end.
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>>60409396
>replying to this
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>>60408974
Because drivers, mostly. Also bootloaders.
Buy a OnePlus or a Nexus/Pixel and put Lineage OS on it. It's the best mobile experience you can get.
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Hmmm, buy a $800 carrier phone and get 2 years of updates (oops I mean buy a 'subsidized' phone and a $100 24 month contract), or a $400 unlocked developer phone and get updates for perpetuity?
We know the answer for most people unfortunately.
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that webm
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>>60410146
Why use vanilla LOS if you can use a LOS-based ROM with three times as many features and identical performance?
t. Resurrection Remix masterrace
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>>60408974
Lack of BIOS/EFI/Open Firmware
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>>60411311
>with three times as many features
sounds like shit tbqh
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>>60411311
>three times as many features
sounds like you're asking for poo-based bugs
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