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Comment on: I'm switching my phone from Android to Linux
I get it. Got one. Compromises are many. Speed wise, it clears the bar for me of being able to watch Youtube on Firefox and use the controls, but yeah it's got bugs and other issues.I may be able to tolerate the speed because of how I used my netbook many years ago. Windows XP was completely useless because of how laggy the GUI was. Archlinux with i3 and a focus on using the shell with a very light terminal (urxvt; others like gnome-terminal were too slow) and other very light apps made it very responsive. I've kept that habit of a core set of light programs even on powerful desktop computers.