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>>joseph+(OP)
Can we please just go back to having some sort of Debian-based GNU/Linux on a smartphone. Just create a really great mobile interface on top of that.

The more I learn about Android, the more I think the whole thing is a waste of time.

>>andrew+Ot
You say “go back” but that was never more than a niche thing. For better or worse, Google’s Android has pretty much always been the chief representative of mobile Linux. And far from being a waste of time, Android is the most widely distributed mobile operating system on the planet.

>>SllX+5w
> You say “go back” but that was never more than a niche thing.

but you could walk to a phone shop and buy a Linux phone, for example FirefoxOS.

>>owebma+3K
Firefox OS lived a short and obscure life years after Android entered the market and certainly wasn’t a GNU or Debian-like distribution of Linux.