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    Hardware Drivers in Linux World

    I know many distros want to keep out binary blobs, with good reason. For those distros that include binaries, why do some distros have better hardware support than others? I imagine that the system detects the hardware and gets the device ID. Then the system checks with a repo that has all...
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    What is holding back Linux as a smartphone OS?

    Is it that manufacturers don't release open source drivers? If you need an Android app, aren't there solutions like Anbox? Why not create a different "skin" for applications, that you can toggle to when using your device as a handheld? If I want my programs to run in a sandbox, I'll run them in...
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    Portable Applications

    Does Linux have portable versions of programs, that don't require a package manager? Portable in the sense that it carries all its own requirements in one zip file, and can be copied to, and run within most any Linux distribution. Excuse my crude understanding of computer science, but in using...
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