- Unlock bootloader (depending on vendor, you have to do an online verification),
- flash a recovery.img,
- load into recovery mode (which, depending on the phone, might need extra work)
- wipe some caches,
- select new os/rom image,
- pray it doesn’t brick your phone.
You’d think someone would’ve learned a thing or two from the easy graphical installations linux and even windows have been offering since the late 2000s.
Because Linus Torvalds decided to license Linux under only version 2 of the GPL back in the day (instead of the recommended “2 or any later version”), which means Linux’s license can’t be upgraded to version 3 and thus devices running Linux (including Android) will forever remain vulnerable to Tivoization.
Thus once again proving that GPLv3 is the best license. At least he didn’t use a corporate bootlicker license like MIT.
We know exactly what would’ve happened if Linus had picked a permissive license instead of a copyleft one: it’s called “BSD” and it’s a lot less popular.
linux couldn’t be as big as today with gpl3