A new survey reveals users are waiting longer to upgrade. Over 49% of readers now wait three years for a new smartphone.

A new survey reveals users are waiting longer to upgrade. Over 49% of readers now wait three years for a new smartphone.

  • JennyLaFae@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Enshittification, they code poorly on purpose so people need to upgrade their hardware for ever increasingly bloated software. Linux doesn’t play those games.

    • Zak@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Proprietary drivers and the lack of a hardware abstraction layer seem to be the main problems. The big, popular desktop environments on Linux have also grown pretty heavy, but there are plenty of alternatives.