- Unlock bootloader (depending on vendor, you have to do an online verification),
- flash a recovery.img,
- load into recovery mode (which, depending on the phone, might need extra work)
- wipe some caches,
- select new os/rom image,
- pray it doesn’t brick your phone.
You’d think someone would’ve learned a thing or two from the easy graphical installations linux and even windows have been offering since the late 2000s.
Because Linus Torvalds decided to license Linux under only version 2 of the GPL back in the day (instead of the recommended “2 or any later version”), which means Linux’s license can’t be upgraded to version 3 and thus devices running Linux (including Android) will forever remain vulnerable to Tivoization.
linux couldn’t be as big as today with gpl3
Thus once again proving that GPLv3 is the best license. At least he didn’t use a corporate bootlicker license like MIT.
We know exactly what would’ve happened if Linus had picked a permissive license instead of a copyleft one: it’s called “BSD” and it’s a lot less popular.
