Does it also support PS4 games? I don’t see a technical reason why it wouldn’t.

Depends on the language

They are behind on lithography machines. LogicFolding seems like one way to overcome that, but for now HiSilicon is 18-24 months behind Apple and Qualcomm in performance. I will believe the promised gains when they are delivered, and I’m hopeful that a Chinese company figures out how to make EUVs. In a sense being only behind by 18-24 months is a win for Huawei and China, Biden’s goal was to keep Huawei at 2014 levels. In another Huawei phones and tablets still lose on performance in comparisons and they aren’t cheap. Xiaomi has also contracted TSMC to make its Xring chip, not SMIC. Of course cutting edge nodes are not necessary for all applications, certainly not for military applications which is the alleged reason behind the US ban. My laptop uses NVMe by YMTC and I wouldn’t tell the difference or care if it were 14nm or 28 nm or otherwise.

Chinese manufacturers such as Honor and Xiaomi have Chinese and Global versions of their handsets. My Honor Magic V5 runs Android based MagicOS and has access to Google Play and other Google services. Huawei phones sold here still come with AOSP^? based EMUI, I’m not positive on whether it has Google Play and other Google services or not^*, but you can install them using packages such as MicroG.

* Wikipedia says not:

On 14 July 2026, Huawei unveiled EMUI 16 alongside the Pura 90s Pro and Pura 90s Pro Max at a global launch event in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.[43][44][45] Based on Android 16, it launched in international markets without Google Mobile Services.[46][47][48]

It is good that I have the option to use Chinese alternatives to overpriced US made products.

MATE is already perfect, for a more modern alternative you can use Cinnamon. This project is just a waste of time and resources. It is not like some corporate overlord is waiting for a BSD-licensed MATE to profit off of. I am not against people working on passion projects that are not necessarily viable, but the whole point of this seems to license-wash MATE.

Holden cars meanwhile remain hack-proof. Another win for the Australian auto industry.

;)

Many AOSP apps are dated and Google has its own closed source Google apps.

The writing has been on the wall for years now [Article from 2018]

And AOSP is purposefully falling behind

The OpenAtom Foundation might have an opportunity here -non-profit behind OpenHarmony the basis for HarmonyOS and others-, at least in some parts of the world any ways.

Most USians are a lost cause, they are propagandized from an early age that they become immune to reason and evidence.

No one was run over by tanks

Mint is based on Ubuntu LTS (long-term support) releases, unless you go with LMDE which is based on Debian. There is not a major technical difference but there are political differences between the projects.

The main reason to go with Mint instead of Ubuntu is if you prefer Cinnamon over GNOME as I do, and want a distribution built around the Cinnamon desktop environment.

OpenHarmony does exist of which Huawei’s HarmonyOS is but one distribution.

It is like Android, mixed source. Android is based on the open source AOSP project. HarmonyOS is based on the open source OpenHarmony project. Kaihong has released laptops that uses its own OpenHarmony distribution.

I can’t wait until HarmonyOS becomes global.

Weird how this is not the case. You could begin by citing court cases and verdicts.

Not all governments equally bomb weddings, hospitals, schools and provide political and military aid to countries convicted of genocide. Some nuance is in order.

But the Palestinians are already home, it is their land that has been taken from them. They are colonizing invoking a 2000-year exile and 3000-year religious claims.