Most Linux users don’t compile anything and live happily.

ecosystem

It shouldn’t be replaced. It should be thrown away. Smartphones should be just handheld computers for running an arbitrary OS to run user programs. Nobody needs, wants or asked for the “ecosystem”.

Linux has been around for 30 years already. There isn’t any technical reason why it isn’t more widespread. Reasons are artificial: only blobs instead of drivers for any phone-related modules.

I never liked the idea of that “obligatory Java”. I would prefer something more like a common OS for running common programs written in whatever language the programmer wants.

I don’t want Android to be open. I want it to die.