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by zozbot234 1401 days ago
> the purely open source elements of the android ecosystem work far better than the pure Linux ecosystem

This isn't really true, unless you specifically care about compatibility with (1) proprietary Android apps and/or (2) fiddly hardware that's supported in downstream Android builds but lacks complete support on the mainline kernel. Everything else has basically reached and exceeded parity with AOSP. (To be fair, this is a very recent development indeed, and it's quite normal that most would be unaware of it.)

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> (2) fiddly hardware that's supported in downstream Android builds but lacks complete support on the mainline kernel.

This described just about all modern smartphone hardware.

> (1) proprietary Android apps

What users want to be able to run.

>Everything else has basically reached and exceeded parity with AOSP.

I doubt it reached parity with the open source software available (!= AOSP).