I’m not sure how true this is, but I read somewhere that when Mac got above 5% market share, it suddenly got a lot more mainstream support.

I wonder if that means we’re are a year or two away from Linux as a mainstream option.

I’d love to have an arm based Linux laptop with software support for one of my critical work apps.

I don’t think this is accurate. It says Apple is the leading phone where I live, but the large majority of people here are too poor for an iPhone. Plus you rarely see people with them outside the rich areas of the city.

Genuine question, is there some reason you can mix and match tools?

I agree, that’s what I meant by full computer.

I think the tech is still kinda pricey, but imagine having a phone, table, and then full computer when docked to a keyboard and mouse in one device.

That’s the dream.

I’d even be happy with the phone/full computer combo.

Depending on which virtual machine software you use, you might need to go onto the Linux even after you boot from it and run some programmer script to install drivers or something, but depends on which virtual machine software you use.

I actually need a separate phone just for business purposes, like messaging, emails, calls. A few productivity apps.

I like the long support window of pixels as I won’t have to replace the phone as frequently.

I really love the idea of the dex mode of the galaxy phones. I wish I could dock the pixel and use it as my main work device. It’s the only reason I’m not 100% sold on a pixel as my next device.

What do you recommend other than a pixel?

I agree that it’s not as big a deal. I guess I’m more concerned than I need to be.

Additionally, there are not yet reports of generation 1 devices suddenly all breaking.

I saw a Samsung one and it looked pretty cool.

I’m honestly concerned about durability and I doubt I really need to close it as I have no problem with current phone size, but it was cool nonetheless.

My work laptop is windows and I hardly use it for anything personal. I just unplug the usb-c dock from it and plug it into my steam deck and use it as my desktop. I’ve done everything with it you can do on a computer.

Android is great because of the foss apps. iOS doesn’t really have that. I think it’s due to no side loading and having to pay an annual fee to be a dev and needing to have a Mac to compile for iOS.

Yeah, not just worse quality but also some apps don’t come to Android until months later.

Linus from tech tips has complained that the Android version of YouTube is missing features that iOS has.

Another commenter mentioned that someone did a switch to Android challenge and Instagram was missing features.

A chatgpt competitor has had an app for iOS for months and Android just got it, I think something similar happened with chatgpt.

It’s not just arbitrary screen size, it’s about with wide variety of specs that need to be supported. Your app needs to work on a crappy modern Android with a slow cpu and limited ram as well as the flagship stuff, its easier for the devs to make a one size fits all app instead of expanding how some features only work on some phones and keep track of all that.

Additionally, newer versions of Android will have better and more capable apis. But if only 12% of people are on the latest version of Android, then coding the app to use those apis would either break the app on old version of Android or they would have to have code for doing a task an old I efficient way and a newer better way. So they just do it the I efficient way.

While the new features may not matter to you, it makes devices much harder to develop for. This is one reason why Android versions of apps are worse compared to the same app on iOS.

But like you, security updates are very important to me. If I were ever going to switch to Android, I’d only consider getting a pixel. And I won’t consider that until it has a native desktop mode so I can essentially use it as my pc.

What if I saw it elsewhere and posted it? I wouldn’t know it was a repost. And I expect that is what is mostly happening.

That’s my thinking as well. A long time o ago in reddit, people were always claiming things were reposts, but it was new to me.

Dude! They are all once a century events. It’s just that they are all happening in the same year.

/s

I’m sure it’s the exact same thing happening in both operating systems.

It’s just clouded cache files that need to be cleaned up.

I still prefer it over windows. If it were not for their absurd pricing, I’d have a MacBook Air over my thinkpad.

I’d much prefer to run Linux, but I’ve yet to find a way to do my main work task on something other than Mac or windows.

macOS is pretty bad about using up storage space. There are always huge 10gb+ cache files for cloud related stuff. Even if I’m like, don’t store it locally.

I’ve not used macOS in years, so many that issue has been resolved.