• OhYeah@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      There are apps made for linux that don’t work with android, and there are apps made for android that don’t work with linux. That’s enough for me to consider them different

      Also android just doesn’t use the basic mainline kernel which is what most people want when they say “linux phone”

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      When people want “Linux” on their phones they’re talking more about the ecosystem than the OS

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          I can imagine that theirs is safer and more suited for targeted devices. Linux is extremely generalistic and has a ton of cruft.

          But I have never looked at their code or tried to port a Linux app to Android. The #Krita devs might have some insight here.

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            I can imagine that theirs is safer and more suited for targeted devices. Linux is extremely generalistic and has a ton of cruft.

            For targeted devices so is Gentoo. Their edge is having access to proprietary drivers.

            But I have never looked at their code or tried to port a Linux app to Android. The #Krita devs might have some insight here.

            If it’s written in portable C you can use the Android NDK/SDK to cross-compile it for the 4 archs they support. I do it at work.