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  • (1) sometimes, yes. It really depends 🤷

    (2) And some stuff like the camera api is different from what mainline linux uses, so you need a special camera app etc. And the Android kernels lacks some features like virtualisation afaik.

    (6) I haven’t tried it, but it seems to be mainly for running desktop linux distributions.

    (8) Again, device specific. There are basically no standards in the ARM space for that, especially for old Android devices.



    1. Unlikely but can happen. Some vendors like Fairphone will fix it for you if you send it in for service.
    2. No that is not true, but the most popular Halium based distribution (Ubuntu Touch) has some other peculiarities that make this harder than it should be. They have experimental Snap support now though.
    3. Ubuntu Touch is a good start as it supports many devices that are cheap to get. Dual booting is quite hard to do, so not something for beginners.
    4. No idea, sorry.
    5. Android has a lot of hardware specific battery optimizations. But overall it isn’t that bad… the people that complain probably got an old device for testing with a bad battery.
    6. I think that is a feature in the latest Android 16.
    7. About the same.
    8. Device specific and probably not.
    9. Afaik no.