• JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl
    16·
    6 hours ago

    I would think Linux would be way too heavy for these watches. A lot of them use pretty lean MCUs, a far cry from the beefy Qualcomm phone chips that Post market runs on.

    Even running zephyr on the NRF52840 can get heavy with adding a bunch of apps to it.

    • randy@lemmy.ca
      1·
      2 hours ago

      AsteroidOS mostly supports watches that come stock with Wear OS, which is a modified version of Android, which, guess what, runs a Linux kernel. These watches are on the more powerful end of the computing spectrum. As you say, there are a lot of smart watches that use pretty lean MCUs, but those aren’t running AsteroidOS or Wear OS, as noted in this FAQ entry.

    • fizzle@quokk.auEnglish
      6·
      6 hours ago

      Nah, it’s not “too heavy” the linux kernel is running on all kinds of tiny processors.

      My limited understanding is, that usually the problem is a lack of support and assistance from the hardware manufacturer to optimise the OS for their hardware.

      This is why GrapheneOS and similar have poorer performance on phones et cetera.

      • MalReynolds@piefed.socialEnglish
        5·
        4 hours ago

        Generally correct, but,

        GrapheneOS and similar have poorer performance on phones

        FWIW mine gets 40-50% more battery, likely due to lack of parasitic (see what I did there?) google services.

    • drcobaltjedi@programming.dev
      1·
      5 hours ago

      I mean, look at the specs of a smart TV or smart fridge. The specs on them are shit and they run Linux.

      Hell there are whole distros designed to run on minimal as fuck hardware.