Agreed. Though, back in the day, I used Android primarily because it was Linux (used the Linux kernel). I also felt that the power was largely with the people, with Google’s role being the ones who maintained mainline Android on Nexus phones and kept the AOSP repository. A lot of smart and cool people were making custom firmware based on AOSP. The big players were Cyanogen, Paranoid, and AOKP. I used a fork of, I think AOKP, called LiquidSmooth, and it was awesome. Based on 4.2.1 Jellybean.

There are Linux phones coming out in the EU, but they won’t be as powerful as Android phones (let alone, iPhones). They may work in the US or other territories.

I’m super excited for Linux phones. I actually use both platforms, and I refreshed my iPhone last year (16 Pro Max). It’s funny because my Android phone is a Galaxy S10. It boots maybe a few seconds slower, takes a few seconds to load the home screen (I use Nova Prime; I know about some of the bullshit but it still does what I need), but after that? It’s perfectly fine. Has the better keyboard. I like my Lemmy app (Mlem) on iOS more than the one I have on Android (Voyager), but they’re both great. My Animal Crossing tracker is a little nicer on Android. I use Apple Music on both of them, and it’s about the same. Android has the better browser, where I have Firefox with uBlock Origin. The browsing is almost as good on iOS (Safari, with uBlock Lite), but between the two, I gotta hand it to Android).

In a few years, I’ll refresh my Android phone, and I’d like it to be a Linux phone where I’m in control, not Apple or Google. I think we should all be fighting for an open phone, or cyberdeck, or mobile computing device, whatever you want to call it. (I don’t like calling them phones because I don’t use the phone much on it, they’re my handheld PCs.) For a laptop, I’ll stick with MacBook, but for a desktop, I can see going to Linux at some point. I don’t want to go back to Windows (except at work where it’s not my machine), but I could see going to Linux on the desktop.