not sure linux itself has drawbacks—more that running it means stepping away from convenience. you find the tradeoff worth it, or do you value having everything just work more?

Security hardening is the big one. Android actually runs on the Linux kernel, but it adds a lot of additional security layers on top of it—sandboxing, SELinux enforcement, and the app permission model developers have to work within. Mobile Linux systems are much more open by design, which is gre...