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by breakfastduck 1470 days ago
It's painful that for whatever reason these projects always tend to get built around old devices rather than more recent models, basically shooting themselves in the foot.

Hard to garner excitement from more general crowds running something on an iPhone 5 than it would be 10/11/12 etc. Less people to become interested in contributing.
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idle_zealot 1470 days ago
> for whatever reason these projects always tend to get built around old devices rather than more recent models

It’s because the new devices haven’t been cracked open enough to work on yet. Tough to port Linux to a device with a locked bootloader. On the Android phone side even if the bootloader is unlocked it takes a lot of time and effort to write or port drivers.

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nsonha 1470 days ago
Yeah same story for linux on Androids. They are at better state, but Ubuntu Touch website is still promoting Nexus 5 as their "official" device, among other similarly old phones. The top spec I can find is Oneplus 6T but it lacks many things, especislly HDMI. Can we deduce that these developers dont make enough money (from these projects)?
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