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HarmonyOS 6 Full Overview: New Design, AI Features and Privacy Upgrades [video]

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Re: HarmonyOS 6 Full Overview: New Design, AI Features and Privacy Upgrades [video]

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Post by WhyNotHugo » Thu, Oct 23, 2025, 2:27 AM UTC

sgt wrote: post #16

torginus wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

According to wikipedia, they moved to their own kernel in the 5.0 release last year: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HarmonyOS_version_history

Okay so it won't run Android apps necessarily or be able to access the regular app stores/Play Store. It will need popular apps to be re-released for HarmonyOS NEXT

> Okay so it won't run Android apps necessarily

It does, they implemented a Linux-compatible API and ABI. They claim that apps run unmodified.

Re: HarmonyOS 6 Full Overview: New Design, AI Features and Privacy Upgrades [video]

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Post by sph » Sat, Oct 25, 2025, 4:14 PM UTC

pjmlp wrote: post #20

sph wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Must Valve do everything to bring Linux to the masses? (I would love a Steam phone, though that’s never gonna happen)

Still having issues to bring Linux to game devs. Remember that Android/NDK has the same 3D and audio APIs available on regular GNU/Linux, Swift does Vulkan, Playstation has a POSIX like OS based on FreeBSD. Yet Valve needs to offer Win32/DirectX support via Proton.

Game devs are not stuck on Windows because of APIs. They're stuck on Windows because of the Adobe suite and proprietary game engines.

All Valve can do is bring Linux to gamers, and game devs will follow, if their tools allow them to.

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