The biggest problem with microsd cards is they’re stuck in 2013, yeah microsd express technically exists but nobody produces cards so no OEMs are willing to support it (except Nintendo)

Nope, you can quickly set up an alt acc tho

Yeah but its a less secure way of using GraphineOS, the fact is the sandboxed Google play services is the most secure way to use it (what im using on my GOS setup)

Still is, well except modern mediatek devices are slow from the first boot to ewaste

You are absolutely and completely out of luck, all three of the devices mentioned use Mediatek processors. Mediatek is widely known as having the absolute worst support for custom roms due to no open source drivers being available and generally no support for developers.

As a rule of thumb if it runs android and it doesn’t use Snapdragon or Tensor it doesn’t support custom roms. If it uses Snapdragon and specifically has an unlockable bootloader than it might support custom roms. Finally if it runs a Tensor processor (with the exception of Pixel 10 due to being too new) than it is guaranteed to either run custom roms or eventually run custom roms (no guarantee for future tensor devices).

So if you want my reccomendation for phone brands it would be in this order:

1. Google Pixel: Any of them except the 10 yet, maybe in a couple months from now. Generally the gold standard for custom rom support, only brand (as of now) to support GraphineOS (the most secure custom OS that is generally considered unhackable by current tools)
2. Nothing (yes its acturally called that): great custom rom support, the design of the phones however is… Well lets just say its highly opinionated and you either love it or hate it
3. Fairphone: Also generally great custom rom support

Custom roms/custom OSs (excluding forks and custom builds):

LineageOS: The largest and original custom rom, as the evolution of CyanogenOS it is the #1 custom rom that nearly eveyone thinks of when they think of custom roms. It supports 559 devices however keep in mind only 44% (247) support LineageOS 22.2 or up (Android 15) and only 23% (132) support LineageOS 23 (Android 16). Due to complications Android 16 QPR1 is not included in LineageOS 23.

GraphineOS: As the unofficial evolution of CopperheadOS, GraphineOS is newer (initially releasing in 2019) and widely considered the most secure custom OS (the devs insist the term “custom rom” is outdated and does not apply to GOS). Its also the most polished custom rom receiving regular updates and security patches significantly faster than any other mobile OS (even stock PixelOS). It focuses purely on security features and in that regard it succeeds. However keep in mind that means no microg (instead a secure sandboxed implementation of google services), almost no additional customization features, and especially no root. Also keep in mind only Google Pixels are supported for now (an unknown and unnamed OEM will start supporting GOS soon) and only as long as Google supports them (for security purposes). This means it supports Pixel 6 and up currently.

Depends strongly, what phone do you have?

I reccomend fedora, great compromise between stability and modern features

Just get a GabeCube or a raspberry pi 5 if you really just need streaming

I can see this going for around $750 personally

As someone who was an absolutely massive fan of the original Steam Controller (in fact I still have two of them) I absolutely love these. Yes I know they’re clearly a different design but like last time they seem absolutely perfect for my larger hands. The touchpads seem to be less of a primary focus but honestly im just happy that they included them at all especially two of them. Also USB C plus rechargeable battery and four back buttons instead of two, this is absolutely everything I could have hoped for and then some.

I really hope that with the release of this sc-controller either starts being maintained or somebody makes a fork of it that is (standalone original steam controller/steam deck/steaminput driver)

Bold of you to assume Wayland devs do things like absolutely everything else, in fact the opposite is true. As a rule of thumb Wayland devs must always do everything completely differently from everyone else and if you dont like that feel free to ignore the less than 2% of people who use Linux.

Im going to vim heaven :3

If only the IWW was more active, I love them tho

I mean yeah the comment was pretty fair but what did you except saying “Linux doesn’t work” in !linux@programming.dev

Take a look where you are

Damn, this is pure bullshit

The Asahi Linux devs still have a while to improve M1 support before Apple drops it

If your logo isnt cool enough consider hyfetch :3

Pretty much only good for a headless debian file server

I genuenly dont understand why a glorified set of dotfiles have recived such an enormous amount of donations and publicity. Not a good set of dotfiles mind you, in fact it looks like subpar compared to the many superior Hyprland dotfiles. Whats even more absurd is that people are saying “this will get people to use Linux”, yeah im sure this is what Linux needs another distro thats slightly different.