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    Android hate not tolerated. Android can delete system apps, if you aee root. On linux you can"t install or uninstall anything if you are not root

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      6 hours ago

      Or by connecting an Android phone to a computer, enabling USB debugging, launching a terminal and typing

      adb shell pm uninstall -k --user 0 com.package.name.of.app

      No root needed!

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        That’s not exactly a safe, recommended or foolproof way. Adb carries a lot of risks

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      On linux you can"t install or uninstall anything if you are not root

      Wrong. You can install Flatpak apps as a user, which are very similar to apps on Android.

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      On linux you can"t install or uninstall anything if you are not root

      That’s not true at all. You generally can’t use your distribution’s package manager to install or uninstall without elevated privileges. But you can download packages, or executables with their own installer, and unpack/install under your home directory. Or, you can compile from source, and if you ./configure’d it properly make install will put it under your home.

      Standard Linux distributions don’t place restrictions on what you can and cannot execute; if it needs permissions for device access of course you’ll need to sort that out.

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      I’m running NixOS and my entire desktop environment is installed and managed without root.