Android TV also has similar issues

I wouldn’t expect it to matter much, idle processes are pretty cheap.

…in a virtual machine

And even if something is not on the AUR, I could see myself writing a PKGBUILD for it, unlike most other packaging formats.

archinstall straight up could not deal with the partition setup I wanted, EOS installed without problems. Something about installing btrfs with multiple subvolumes next to Windows on the same drive.

Doesn’t LTS change like twice a year nowadays?

What distro? Runs just fine on Arch.

Best match

Sure thing, bud 😂

It even recognized the local app that matches, how on earth is this a better match

Are you sure that’s not a monitor setting?

Since plain http is becoming pretty uncommon nowadays, just use a non-ISP DNS server and you should be pretty safe.

Or Fedora

Does that laptop have an SSD?

FreeBSD is closer to Unix than Linux is

Question is how “real” that support is - firmware updates matter and depend mostly on the chip manufacturer’s support.

By 8 years old even the newest devices will be out of software support and using EOL phones is not a particularly great idea for security. GOS’s security focus goes out the window if you use an old version with known vulnerabilities.

You can probably expect GOS support as long as Google supports the device, that is the main limitation. For the newer Pixels that is promised to be 7 years after release.

Going by this table, Pixel 6 is currently the oldest to get full GOS updates

That matches Google’s software support

Don’t buy ASUS, they have a terrible security record. At this point I would trust only MikroTik and Ubiquiti.

Even worse - it looks like Google might be forced to sell Chrome to some AI company.

What does it matter? They all rely on Mozilla to do the hard work - maintenance and keeping up with web standards, and then just slap a couple of features and customizations on top of it. If Mozilla dies the current forks are dead in the water.

A lot? All of them.