Can you install Librewolf on Android with the instructions for ‘other Linux’? Why are Linux phones still in development and not able to be daily driven if you could just swith distros, fork Android, etc?
Lol, humorous, but meh, Android is not Linux.
Android uses a Linux kernel, but the shell/API is Android. Just like we had a Posix API on Windows, and the Win32 API. Using the POSIX API didn’t make Windows a POSIX OS.
Android may or may not be posix but it’s absolutely Linux. The kernel is Linux. The rest of your typical distro is gnu stuff that was written for a completely different kernel
I think the only argument would be that it’s not the mainline kernel. (which saves it from things like the bcachefs nonsense)
You’re right; the kernel is still Linux.
Most of it can be removed with adb. The commands arent even difficult,
adb shell pm list packages pm [-k] --user 0 [package-name]Here is a great writeup.
Plus there are plenty of very minimalist distros (hell, I’d say most distros are minimalist).
I’m also not going to blame Linux generally, for something a company adds on top of a Linux kernel.
The Android problem is a different issue altogether.
Thanks for sharing! I’m a tad hesitant for things like this because I’m not running out of space (complaining about bloat is over-done) and I had a rooted Android become unrooted.