It sadly doesn’t change the fact that those phones barely exists and the few that does are either incredibly old or only very partially supported.

Did phone manufacturer finally decide to keep supporting their models after the first year/couple of years? Or did the “likely lifetime” of a smartphone dropped below that in the meantime?

If anything, my experience with “manufacturer support” on android isn’t particularly stellar, with the only outlier being my current Samsung XCover, which is kinda cheating due to the thing being a rugged phone targeting companies and not the average joe, so the thing is built to last, both hardware and software side.

On the other hand you do have a couple (maybe even three!) companies that offer linux pre-installed on their machines.

Ah yes, reading my monthly blob of my 900 and still growing games library updates, marvelous. Might need a couple of days to just get halfway through.

And fuck the indie games that relies on direct user feedback by the way, those pesky weekly updates! Stop trying making quality games, folks, someone here is bothered by a notification.

Oh no the lastest update made the game crash on launch? Well, wait for next month patch then, we wouldn’t dare pushing an update notification, that would be horrendous!

Having OneDrive wouldn’t help as you still won’t be able to use programs as a user, which is pretty much the reason we use computers in the first place, this bug effectively makes whole computers glorified paperweight in the meantime.

The boot process isn’t an user process, Windows would still be able to use the C:/ drive for itself, for every other user software though, that’s another story…

Ok, you’re either stupid or a troll.

In case you are just stupid :

My smartphone is brand new, thank you very much, doesn’t change the fact that android need 6GB of memory to just exist idly…

Yes I am adequating my device with the dislike of a company when said company provide the OS (an important part of the device) an no mean to change it, and said OS is a spyware.

No my PC isn’t a tool to spy on me, my machine, my OS, my rules. I run a Linux system : no Google, Apple or Microslop here.

You may also continue acting dumb.

“More efficient and less annoying than […] a PC.” talks about modern day smartphone

huh?

I’d like to know how a completely underpowered totaly locked down piece of crap I keep struggling with daily is “infinitely more efficient and less anoying” than my well oiled machine running mostly FOSS.

Google is talking about removing the ability to install software while Apple is busy reinventing Windows Aero 20 years later. Meanwhile both are spying on you and no you can’t have any alternative due to how locked down those things are.

Can’t access some parts of the storage of my device due to “security concerns”. Can’t disable some aggressive “optimisations” that keeps killing my apps to prevent OOM, can’t use anything less bloated than the stock OS that uses roughly all the available RAM, AI everywhere…

Add on top of that those fucking “all touch and swipe based” UI that are just a pain, virtual keyboard included. My fat fingers on a tiny over-sensitive touchscreen means a fuck ton of misclics. Bring me back Blackberry or Psion like physical keyboards.

Do you know which computing device I own that isn’t such a pain? My desktop computer, my ol’ reliable!

Bring me a smartphone that doesn’t attempt to dictate how I must use it, that I actually own and with buttons and I might end up liking it. Until then enjoy that corporatist hellscape without me.

Well… it is a feature… we are talking about Arch here, a bleeding edge distro meant to be continuously updated.

Want to update once every couple of decades? Go pick something stable like Debian (also Linux BTW).

No, thank you very much, I like my CVEs and bugs being fixed as soon as possible.

Hardly.

The system drive (very usually C:/) is where the Users folder lies by default (and you can’t move it anyway IIRC), folder that contains stuff like the Appdata folder where… well… apps keeps their data like settings, history, backups… Most software will try to access it and would meet an “access denied” error.

This is also the default location for all the documents, music, videos, pictures,[…] folders (but you can change those though)

Basicaly you’d be limited to the “portable” versions of softwares located on other drives, which is not quite the norm on Windows.

What ecosystem? pretty sure the “ecosystem” is standardized computer parts for thinkpads.

I honestly don’t understand why someone would use something like Cinnamon, XFCE or, god forbid, GN*ME instead of KDE Plasma.

RAM usage. I sometime restore machines that just wouldn’t handle KDE. While GNOME is as heavy as KDE, cinnamon is lighter and xfce even more. An average finished KDE setup eats 4GB for me while a cinnamon one uses 1,5GB and an XFCE one 0,5GB. This makes KDE close to unusable on older 2 or 4GB systems.

I have a roughly 26 years old pentium III laptop still in working order. Those 256MB of memory are still going strong.

Splendid! but we’re facing a several years long DRAM shortage, just so you know.

Sure, buy american hardware to flash an operating system based on an american operating system made by an american mega-corp. (yes, graphene OS only works on google pixels afaik) You understood the assignment perfectly on this european community, congrats.