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If you wanna flash Android phone, or resurrect usb flash, then you'll NEED windows, I've been daily driving Linux for 8 years myself, but sadly, some specific software don't work under wine and if you run it in virtual machine then you'll never know what'll happen, may as well brick device you're flashing
flash android phone = putting another OS on it? I use grapheneos, installed from my linux tumbleweed.
Nah man, lineage os on chinese unsupported phones, trying to give new life to abandoned hardware
ADB and Fastboot both run natively on Linux. I don't think I've needed other tools since the HP Touchpad days. And that didn't come with Android in the first place.