Comment by coldtea

1 day ago

With Linux you can control up to the detail any auto-update, and any update in general, all the way to being able to inspect the code.

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dbgobrrr  17 hours ago

With GNU/Linux, yes. With Android/Linux, not so much. [1]

(I used to dislike this "GNU/Linux" term, it seemed unimportant - Android showed me why the GNU part of it is)

[1] https://keepandroidopen.org/

  • coldtea  5 hours ago

    I don't think anybody implied or thought of Android in this subthread, just because it nominally runs the Linux kernel. I for sure understood it as just "Linux = whole OS-level distros of the laptop/PC bound type" not "anything with a Linux kernel even if it's a proprietary mobile phone OS".

  • nathanmills  15 hours ago

    Only if you have the closed-source Google Play Services... Just like desktop, there are plenty of Android distros like LineageOS