The Android alternative can be Android. I think you mean a Google alternative. Android is FOSS, only Google Mobile Services (GMS) is proprietary. GrapheneOS for instance, is an alternative to Google's Android.
While he stays on a boat, that boat's purpose is a marine lab for conservation research. Helps to know why it has a submarine.
Billionaires shouldn't exist, but this isn't as evil as the headline makes it sound. If I basically lived on a research boat, I'd want LAN parties, too.
While not all functions work, they do a lot of things in Wayland. xdotool search, xdotool winactivate, xdotool windowsize, xdotool windowmove, xdotool keyup, and wmctrl -r all work fine, and my "move to" script (that positions all my windows on startup) works in Wayland using those.
Uhh no? Android is open source, from The Open Source Alliance. You're conflating Google's version of Android (Android + Google Mobile Services) with Android.
Android is Apache2 + GNU for the kernel. GMS is proprietary.
Control of your phone does not equal Linux. Plenty of FOSS OS's do that (including Android). And Android 16 brought Linux app support with GPU acceleration if you're into that and want FreeCAD on your phone.
Android basically is a Linux phone, it's a distro(ish).
It has a Linux kernel and a Linux-based OS wrapped around it. And just like you can compile FreeCAD for Debian or Arch, you can compile Fossify for Google Android, GrapheneOS, or LineageOS.
"Linux" phones in the sense you mean won't be a "Debian" or "Arch", they'll be something else, just like Android.
Yes, but in 12 months a Linux phone won't even be close to where even 4 versions ago Android is. As long as Graphene (or Lineage, or Fairphone, plenty of models) keeps the security updates covered, there are good options out there.
True, but what I'm saying is there is an open model. If another community of devs wan't a "Linux-based mobile OS", they can fork AOSP like Graphene did. IE complain about Google, not Android.
Graphene works. No tracking, tons of FOSS and commercial apps, it just lacks some banking apps. One gap, vs all that exist between now and another Linux phone.
LineageOS is another option for other phones, also far ahead of other Linux ideas.
DNS doesn't fail over, unfortunately.