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Which recent devices other than the Pixels are supported?
A lot? They have a pretty big list and for all I know all are stable. https://wiki.lineageos.org/devices/
So fucking dumb how we have to look for specific models just to get support for smartphones.
Can you image if Linux only ran on HP and dell laptops?
Unfortunately that's moistly on maufacters. If they don't release the kernel LOS can't do anything. Also depending on the phone it might take a while till someone picks the phone and decides to support it. Laptops do have compatibility options. But I get what your saying, it is annoying but what did you expect from such organization?
It would be awesome if we could just install whatever like we can on pcs. On phones you still need a developer to make a specific rom for that device, we were close with Generic System Images (GSIs), but I don't think they really went anywhere
I think you can but I'm not sure. There's Ubuntu Touch that works on some phones but it's really buggy
Hopefully when RISCv gets there it won't be so bad.
Now that manufacturers are getting called out for it they tend to follow the support cycle upstream. Now, much of it falls on the chip makers, Qualcomm specifically supports chips for 5 years iirc (and 8 years for their industrial chips).
If the manufacturers can achieve vertical integration, like Apple has, with RISCv I think we'll see a lot more mainlined support from them.