Coding without a laptop: Two weeks with AR glasses and Linux on Android

> I really didn't want to root the phone, but nothing else did what I needed

Shame that rooting is such a pain, and risks bricking the device. (Apparently Google's introduction of an anti-rollback bootloader this month has caused a few people's devices to get bricked when they tried to root.)

Seriously. Why is using your own pocket computer so hostile to user intent these days?

What about running the userland app?

Because the world is full of malicious entities who want to exploit people and most people do not need root.

That's right, but why make rooting almost Impossible? Why they are fighting rooting at all? They could make rooting easier, for example in the hidden developer menu.

Anti-rollback is a security feature. I'm sorry you find yourself limited by Google - coming from the GrapheneOS user this is the only reasonable secure hardware platform of all the Android landscape.

I hope rooting will be easier for all the interested.

The hardware is owned by the user but the OS is essentially owned by Google or Apple. The user is a tenant or a cow to be milked.

The main goals is preventing a spread of "google play" alternatives with paid apps.