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[–] cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 14 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

Ok valve, make me a Linux phone lol. Steam deck has been so good for Linux popularity and gaming. We need something similar for phones. And the steam deck remains an open platform. You can install windows on it if you're that sorta monster. And they provide so much control. You can mod it out of the box, no bullshit control crap from valve.

[–] ijeff 1 points 4 hours ago

Oh man. I'd love for Valve to bring us an Arch-based Linux phone.

[–] undrwater@lemmy.world 12 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

There are already Linux phones. The challenge is to develop enough excitement around a concept that attracts developers and users.

The carriers will follow.

[–] ozymandias@sh.itjust.works 0 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Android and iOS are already running Unix like operating systems (they don't use the Linux kernel though)

[–] piccolo@sh.itjust.works 4 points 8 hours ago

Android uses a modifed linux kernel.