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We Must Break The Chains (media.piefed.social)

submitted 1 week ago by Sunshine@piefed.social to c/linuxphones@lemmy.ca

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Apple and Google will gladly erase the works of developers to chase profits.

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[–] jodanlime@midwest.social 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That's true. But it's still android, and it uses the Linux kernel but it's not gnu/Linux like on a desktop or server, the userland is completely different.

[–] Eat_Your_Paisley@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

I didn't bring up any of that, this is about side loading which you can do on any ROM that doesn't use GMS.