[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] noterio:
I last custom compiled this ROM when it was version 3.2 from October 31. I just tried to update it, but when I did "repo sync" it gave errors. I looked into it, and it's because they changed the name of the branch from "kitkat" to "kk44" on GitHub. But only for some repos. The other say "kitkat" "kitkat2" kitkat3".

https://github.com/LiquidSmooth/

I tried editing the repo manifest.xml and renamed them from "kitkat" to "kk44", but syncing failed. I'm not very experienced with repo so I don't know what I'm supposed to do when they made major changes like that. Plus I looked at their Google+ and saw they stopped working on KitKat version anyways.

I couldn't find a middle finger icon, so here's the closest:

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I'm getting sick of Android and this whole appliance computing scene. If my phone had a normal BIOS and ran a normal Linux distro, we could all just update it and customize it ourselves without all this extra work. We shouldn't have to rely on some random people to make some firmware hack, so when they sell their device or move to a new version we all get left with nothing.

If you get a Windows tablet, you know that in 5 years from now you can still install the latest version of Windows. It might be slow, but all the drivers for your hardware will still be there and work. But Android? Lollipop came out and I tried to compile a ROM for it and nothing worked.

Who owns our devices? Us? No. We don't. They're designed to be disposable. Everyone says to get a new device, so we're all supposed to throw our n7000 in the trash and chase the next version of Android, that will make people happy for a year, maybe two, and then the next devices are out and yours is forgotten again.

I like my Galaxy Note. I just wish it ran a real OS, like Ubuntu or Windows, instead of this Appliance OS called Android.

There should be a standard for all ARM phones, where if they want to install Android it's required they use the same common system that works like a PC where you can download the latest Android and install it like you would Windows. They should be required to release all drivers to be included in the common kernel repo, so all devices will always work on all future versions.

You guys are wasting your time working so hard on all this Android nonsense. All that hard work is being thrown away in the trash. The people who worked this hard in the 1990s when Windows was first becoming popular all have their work still able to be utilized today. Code for the latest Linux distro you can install on your desktop has contributions from people from 20 years ago.

Where will the LiquidSmooth 4.4.4 stuff go? It's already dead. What a waste of time.

As soon as there's a small tablet with hardware like the Galaxy Note, but using x86, I'm going to buy that instead. Then I will run Windows or a Linux distro, and use VoIP over LTE. Then I'm done with all this Android garbage. If I want to update my OS, I just type "distro upgrade" and whether I do it in 1 week or 1 year, it will work.

The Note is an awesome machine. But the OS is for an appliance, not a PC. My Note is my COMPUTER. My Personal Computer. It's a PC. It shouldn't have people trying to hack together something resembling a real OS, only to have it be disposed of every year. Stop letting these people screw you over. It's a PC, that fits in your pocket. Demand the freedom and power that you expect from a PC.