It's not really the same game. Having something hidden in a firmware blob vs. installing crapware on a running OS. Thankfully there are cheap SoCs that can run blobless, like Allwinner H5, which runs the Xfce/firefox reasonably fast, and hopefully, this year it will get FLOSS video decoding support, and I'll be happy as a mouse. Mali free software drivers are also being actively worked on, but that's much less interesting.
Finaly a computer I fully control. :) Next, I'd like a tablet I fully control, without all the complexity of Android or traditional Linux desktop environments. Nice small userspace with small tablet GUI apps + HW access server, written in C. All snapping fast without a crazy-bloated SDK. Something that can start in 3-4 seconds including linux boot.
Finaly a computer I fully control. :) Next, I'd like a tablet I fully control, without all the complexity of Android or traditional Linux desktop environments. Nice small userspace with small tablet GUI apps + HW access server, written in C. All snapping fast without a crazy-bloated SDK. Something that can start in 3-4 seconds including linux boot.