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I completely agree with the missing native apps that are on android ...
that is an inevitable though...considering the behemoth droid is... and the user base of droid.

I think of it akin to migrating from windows to linux...
Windows has a ton of stuff..whereas linux doesn't compare (at this point) (and sure there is virtual for windows and anbox for droid...still...)
Way back when I first migrated ...it wasn't about having less or doing without...
My mentality was that I needed to extricate myself from windows ...from "must having" that bound me to windows.
(of course I still use windows for a variety of touch and penabled programs for work ...simply because of the variety and that they are more advanced and simply work ..since there is not the base of end users in linux to support advancements...but everything else I do is linux driven....
Likewise ..I still use droid ..on one of my nexus 5s ..for those applications which are important ...but spend the other 9/10 ths of my time on UT on another nexus 5... Sure it is easier and more convenient all around to just use 1 os for device and just 1 os for pc ...but I have no desire to have a choice between ... either a hobbled experience due to lack of available applications ...yet have a better safer and more control over my experience...
or ..
everything I need.... at the cost of safety, privacy, self reliance, and my soul.
So I choose the best of both worlds without the worst parts of either.

It appears increasing that these are the exact kind of choices that everyone has nowadays ...and that isn't about to go away anytime soon...
Not until there are seamless ways of integrating dockers or boxes or what have you ...into the structure of an os so it is a fluid experience ...than the trial it is at current.)
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