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[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Software side too: Linux's deliberate choice to not have a stable driver interface is detrimental to atomic distros with the usually shitty proprietary vendor drivers. Causing you to get no updates after a few years or get a new device.

Which is why i think BSD would have been a better fit for Android.

[–] squaresinger@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

BSD would have been a much better fit for many reasons. It was just started with Linux for mostly irrelevant reasons, and then it was too hard to switch away.

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Licensing, among others. Google doesn't like the GPL.

[–] squaresinger@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

That's probably the biggest reason why pretty much everyone else uses BSD.