Microsoft is done supporting the original Surface Duo, three years after it first launched on September 10. The company has stated from the very start that the Surface Duo would receive just three years of OS updates, meaning today is the last day that Microsoft has to stay true to its word.

Going forward, Microsoft will no longer ship new OS updates or security patches for the original Surface Duo, meaning Android 12L is the last version of the OS it will ever officially receive. Surface Duo only ever got two major OS updates, one shy of the average three that most high-end flagship Android devices get these days.

      • skulblaka
        -3•2 years ago

        That’s Android. You want an Android. Buy a Samsung and flash whatever rom you want onto it.

        • @imgonnatrythis@lemm.eeEnglish
          6•2 years ago

          So the alternative to Microsoft is Google?

          I dunno, that sounds very Out of the frying pan and into the fires of hell to me.

          • skulblaka
            1•2 years ago

            No, the alternative is an open source rom on Samsung’s hardware. No Google required, at least for now. Though I do expect that to get much more difficult in the future.

          • skulblaka
            2•2 years ago

            Android is literally Linux, and also you can put whatever custom rom you want on your phone. Write your own if it’s that big a deal to you. Don’t stick with stock Android, but if you want a customizable phone, that’s your option. Microsoft and Apple don’t give you the option for custom firmware. Android does.

            • @TheGrandNagus@lemmy.worldEnglish
              0•2 years ago

              Android is literally Linux

              It’s a heavily-forked version of Linux with so many changes that it’s not really Linux anymore.

              Is XboxOS literally windows?

              Is MacOS literally FreeBSD?

              Is PlayStationOS literally FreeBSD?

              Omg do MacBooks and PlayStations have the same OS?? I can play Ratchet and Clank on a MacBook???

              Android does not use an up to date, or mainline Linux kernel. It gets rid of most of the GNU core utils. It doesn’t use other big parts of Linux like Wayland or X11. I can’t install random Flatpaks on my Android phone. Etc etc.

              Calling Android “literally Linux” is incredibly misleading to the point of basically being a lie.