Microsoft is done supporting the original Surface Duo, three years after it first launched on September 10. The company has stated from the very start that the Surface Duo would receive just three years of OS updates, meaning today is the last day that Microsoft has to stay true to its word.

Going forward, Microsoft will no longer ship new OS updates or security patches for the original Surface Duo, meaning Android 12L is the last version of the OS it will ever officially receive. Surface Duo only ever got two major OS updates, one shy of the average three that most high-end flagship Android devices get these days.

  • TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Android is literally Linux

    It’s a heavily-forked version of Linux with so many changes that it’s not really Linux anymore.

    Is XboxOS literally windows?

    Is MacOS literally FreeBSD?

    Is PlayStationOS literally FreeBSD?

    Omg do MacBooks and PlayStations have the same OS?? I can play Ratchet and Clank on a MacBook???

    Android does not use an up to date, or mainline Linux kernel. It gets rid of most of the GNU core utils. It doesn’t use other big parts of Linux like Wayland or X11. I can’t install random Flatpaks on my Android phone. Etc etc.

    Calling Android “literally Linux” is incredibly misleading to the point of basically being a lie.