Maybe Linux phones are less secure but more private? With Android and iOS a lot of effort has been put into restricting what each application can do. With standard Linux that’s less rigorously controlled, which is why there are security enhancements and sandboxing extras a distro can optionally add. So standard Linux may be less secure by default. But it doesn’t have all the surveillance built in that the mainstream phone OSs do, so it’s also by default more private.
Still, “security nightmare” sounds extreme. Wouldn’t a phone running a version of Debian be comparably secure to a computer running it?
Ah yes, because trusting your security to an American tech company which controls your OS is so much more secure 🙄
Maybe Linux phones are less secure but more private? With Android and iOS a lot of effort has been put into restricting what each application can do. With standard Linux that’s less rigorously controlled, which is why there are security enhancements and sandboxing extras a distro can optionally add. So standard Linux may be less secure by default. But it doesn’t have all the surveillance built in that the mainstream phone OSs do, so it’s also by default more private.
Still, “security nightmare” sounds extreme. Wouldn’t a phone running a version of Debian be comparably secure to a computer running it?
mlfh gave the actual explanation for why I said what I said. No American tech company controls LOS/GOS/COS/etc.
any POI should be using at the very least, LineageOS, though they should probably be using Graphene.