UnbloatedMay 8, 2025

I'm intrigued to know this.
Does people lurking here actually use Linux itself on their phones, or simply Android as usual?

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I use the stock ROM my phone came with.
44.3%
I flashed a custom ROM. (Lineage, Graphene...)
51.5%
I actually use Linux on my phone, indeed.
4.2%
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Show threadLuc

@unbloated like, 1 and 3 both? I don't understand the question. All androids are linuxes and some people use the features of the underlying Linux system irrespective of whether they've flashed another distribution onto the device

I'll vote 1 as I'm sure that's the case for me, no matter how the question is meant

Edit: wait, no, I did re-flash it, but with the stock OS because I bought it second hand and wanted it to be clean. Should I have voted 2?! All options apply to me lol

May 8, 2025 at 5:52pmWeb
Show threadUnbloatedMay 8, 2025
@luc As everyone know, Android is based on Linux. But here I'm asking phones that are based on Linux and **not** on Android.
This means for example, a Linux-based OS, or even based off a Linux distro.
Again, Android is based on Linux but is heavily modified to partially work as Linux (and it's on almost all mobile devices), so I prefer not saying it's a "Linux-based" OS.
I hope you understand.
Show threadLucMay 8, 2025

@unbloated ah right, so option 3 means any Linux that isn't also an Android. Then I did vote correctly!

The distinction seems sorta thin though. I've got the vendor's base system so that it has e.g. the camera software optimised for this hardware, but I can also apt install things directly from the Debian's ARM repositories and they work just like on my laptop and server. I make full system backups with the same software, use the same command-line calculator, edit code in the same editor, etc.

Show threadUnbloatedMay 8, 2025
@luc I don't know, Android doesn't feel like it for me.
I'm glad you understand thought!