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Android uses mainline Linux kernel for several years already. Whatever drivers OEMs are using are provided as separate binaries.

It’s an installer for Termux packages. You can do the same thing manually in Termux shell, if you know the names of packages you are installing. And yes, Termux uses Debian apt package manager.

Debian

“Pretend you see nothing” printed in QR code on the box.

The PC case with Turbo button was originally 486-DX, but there was no place on the new K6 motherboard to plug it into.

People are boasting about Arch, but my first open-source OS was FreeBSD 4.2, fitting on a single CD-ROM. It included a tiny base system and C compiler, and practically every other package had to be compiled from source, using the ‘ports’ system, which was just a collection of makefiles, one for each package. And you had to be careful to use gmake instead of make, because the default Make was BSD-specific tool incompatible with most of open-source software, which targeted Linux. And you had to make sure to use GNU versions of grep, sed, and awk, and remove all bashisms from shell scripts, because /bin/sh was of course incompatible with bash. Package manager? What package manager? Just run suand then make install. And my PC was AMD K6, and it had Turbo button, which did absolutely nothing. And I was very proud of my TEAC CD drive.

You lose: Your corporate shackles You gain: Limitless bragging rights

I remember the time when Linux jokes were about audio drivers and X11 config files, but audio has long been working out of the box, and X11 is already dead and cremated. Even recompiling kernel now takes around five minutes instead of two hours, so that joke is irrelevant too. So all we are left with is timeless discussion of which text editor is the best, and dumping on Windows.

Android has BSD-like permissive license. It’s open-source, but is also very very commercial. Google needed it to be open-source so phone manufacturers would adopt it, they all got burned on Windows Phone and Symbian and did not want another closed source OS that they could not modify for their specific hardware.

“Ewww, Windowsssss!” Pinch my nose, spray my fingers with hand sanitizer, then walk away from their desk.

On Android we have five year old games disappearing from Play Store, including games you've previously bought, because Google cannot be assed to support older Android versions.

An unexpected obstacle! I kinda assumed that everyone in technology community would use an Android phone with a dark theme and a Linux emulator app.

Nothing stops you. The app is open-source, so you can add T9 swipe typing yourself.