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  • I haven’t needed to root a device in a while but its fairly straight forward.

    The first step is to unlock your bootloader, do this by enabling developer menu (click on rom version in system settings 6 times fast) and then select to disable the booloader lock. if you cant do that then you probably cant root the device.

    if you can get that far, the next step is to find a recovery for your device, youll want to boot it using fastboot and load the recovery image, that will allow you to flash SuperSU.

    If you need more specific instructions Id need more info on where you get stuck (I’m just going of memory with this reply) but I know windows has some drivers that you need to install for adb to work and there might be other nuances I’m not remembering off hand

    I’d also advise when searching for stuff like this, its better to avoid saying the device name unless you are limiting results to XDA or other well known android development sites.



  • On Linux most distros do not actually ship chrome but chromium which is the open source version of chrome.

    It also comes down to how different groups define FOSS. GNU considers even helper programs (like a package manager or firmware installer) to be “bad” for the user because they “encourage” its use so they dont want them included in GNU approved distros like trisqul or guix . this leads to those “freedom respecting” distros not having things like basic WiFi drivers or support for any 3rd party drivers.

    To a less extreme degree but similar is a distro like debian, where there is a “non_free” repository available but users can choose not to enable it.

    And so GNU sees having the playstore as a bad thing because its gateway to installing other non free software. Its also safe to assume most gnu evangelists probably don’t care much for chromium either.