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What is the advantage of a Linux phone over something like LineageOS?

>>daoboy+(OP)
If things keep going in the direction they are, there might not be a LineageOS at some point, and developing a useful alternative before that (Linux based) would be great.

>>jwrall+z
so we fork and continue to work on lineageOS. why start from scratch? (i mean, it's nice to have alternatives, but there is no reason not to continue developing an android fork.

>>daoboy+(OP)
You can run normal linux desktop and server programs with no limitations. The development and driver support is not guided by google.

>>em-bee+F2
Working on LineageOS doesn't help you if you can't even install it. Fewer and fewer phones come with unlockable bootloaders these days. The grip is tightening.

>>Telane+l8
Yes, but if you are building your own phone hardware to run Linux on it, there is a huge advantage in that Linux flavor being an AOSP fork, since it is already mature.

>>pavon+69
While that's a viable option as something some people can do, it will be for the few in general, not the many.

>>Telane+l8
right, but if you can't install a custom android, you can't install anything linux based or anything else for that matter. so that's a different issue entirely.