Funny, the comment types here are the same as on Youtube:
- “I still run Android and it is totally fine, will never switch Android just got worse!”
- “Well, money”
- “Companies need to support phones longer”
- “I just use LineageOS on that device”
- Misinformation
You can run new android on an old kernel, see lineageos
You can, but often you lose certain APIs or need to fall back to software compensation for stuff that’s supposed to be hardware backed. Custom ROMs won’t pass validation without fixing this, but custom ROM users probably don’t care as much. There’s no way commercial vendors will be able to push Lineage to mobile networks or get access to the Play Store through official means.
Yes and this is not secure. The kernel runs as root.