I am the administrator of the system on my phone. It's the same OS as what I've been using on my PCs for decades, so it's very familiar. It's fully scriptable in whatever language I wish to use, so I can easily adjust its behavior. I can use sandboxes when I need them and ignore them when I don't. Its software components are replaceable and patchable - if something bothers me, I can write a patch, compile a patched package, install it and even send a merge request upstream right on the phone itself without using any other device - regardless of whether it's about desktop environment behavior, cellular middleware or a kernel driver. I can freely modify the system to my liking without being punished for it. I never have to wrestle with the system whenever I want to keep something running in the background.
It just feels like my little personal computer. No Android device ever felt this way to me. I don't want to feel like a guest confined to a sandbox within a computing device I'm supposed to own.
It just feels like my little personal computer. No Android device ever felt this way to me. I don't want to feel like a guest confined to a sandbox within a computing device I'm supposed to own.