They already consider you a criminal if you use grapheneOS on a pixel. It’s not a joke.

While its true Android runs on the Linux kernel, its not Linux. There are many differences and restrictions.

Ridiculous, mother of bullshit! Switching to Linux appears to be the only option left for a personal computing device.

It is not. I think OP is overthinking this too much. If we were to nitpick we could find cons in all scenarios.

Certain phones like Sony, google pixel, samsung, and some chinese OEMs phones do.

Pixel phones and sony phones do. Samsung phones can if you fiddle with its game mode or perhaps root.

The overhead is minimal at best. Since its done at the hardware level.

Ram usage and app killing is not an issue on most phones with 12GB and higher ram.

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It’s a phone what do you expect?

I think you need a low powered server running linux. Android is not the answer for you.

I think not. But, ok.

Newer phones support virtualization and installing Linux and, its apps in a VM.

Read this article: https://www.androidauthority.com/google-pixel-10-storage-specs-3589059/

It does a slightly better job of explaining it.

ZUFS is a new technology that substantially improves the performance and endurance of traditional UFS, especially in high-capacity chips. While the underlying mechanism is complex, the basic principle involves dividing the storage space into distinct “zones.” Data is written sequentially within these zones rather than randomly across the entire storage space. The operating system intelligently groups data with similar lifespans or access patterns into the same zones.

When the system needs to reclaim space, it can erase an entire zone at once after all the data within it is no longer needed. This eliminates the need for running a more traditional, and costly, garbage collection (GC) process, thereby reducing wear on the flash storage. This also makes performance more consistent, especially under heavy load or when the drive is nearly full, as there’s no longer a risk of background GC tasks interfering with active read/write operations.

No, that’s not how it works. It will sort and write the data sequentially in zones instead of randomly increasing read and write speeds.

The android authority article does a better job of explaining it: https://www.androidauthority.com/google-pixel-10-storage-specs-3589059/

If you enable developer settings by tapping the version number in, about settings 5-7 times you can enable “show refresh rate” and see how it changes in real time.

I use Lawnchair. The animations are okay. The same imperfect animations as on my Pixel.

Good to know.

E: Actually I think the back animation is a bit more broken for some apps.

I guess some things can be broken more or less. Thanks for the response.

Consider doing a longterm review in the future when use the phone for longer than a few months.

Does the LTPO display work and save battery by dialing down the refresh rate to 1hz when idle for 24/30hz when playing videos?

Also, do casual games support 120fps like pocket rogues, quest of wizard, etc.

Last question, is the animation experince good with 3rd party launchers like Niagara, Smart launcher 6, Lawnchair?

Magit is built for emacs. Unless, OP is willing to see the positives of emacs and willing to learn a new editor. Switching won’t be that simple.

I was mostly joking since I thought you were too. I re-checked and realized voyager doesn’t. My current client summit does.

You can try it or jerboa if you want to see too.

Yeah, don’t you?

Those games are playable on hardware several times slower than Tensor. Its only in medium graphics to high graphics and CPU intensive games like genshin impact, and others where you should feel the heat on tensor.

But, I haven’t tested this so make sure to check in person before pulling the trigger to verify it won’t have heat issues on basic games you play.

Maybe, switching to Linux would’ve been more beneficial.