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by Krssst 951 days ago
Android uses the Linux kernel and keeps up with upstream to some extent.

macOS uses the XNU kernel.

Though as a user that likes having control over the software, I recognize that not having GNU/Linux being number one is a bit of a waste. (though one weekend of fighting NVIDIA and wayland tamed that quite a bit. Somehow my DE does not load with the proprietary driver unless I also load nouveau for some strange reason).
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Krssst 951 days ago
> though one weekend of fighting NVIDIA and wayland tamed that quite a bit

Looking back on that, this was mostly self-inflicted (used Debian testing rather than stable, and upgraded from Bullseye to Bookworm then to testing rather than clean install). I like twinkering a bit so I don't mind the pain that much but this is absolutely not representative of what new users would experience: my comment was clearly wrong (cannot edit/remove unfortunately).

This is not telling at all for regular stable distributions (Debian stable, Fedora). In general I had pretty good experiences with clean installations of those.

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charcircuit 951 days ago
Android uses the latest LTS kernel and works using a mainline kernel provided mainline supports the hardware you are on.

>though one weekend of fighting NVIDIA and wayland

Wayland is freedesktop software which is different than GNU.

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