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Simply put the economics are behind a locked down click and drool style operating system with a manufacture controlled store that takes 30% of all gross. The f
by pixl97 1y ago
Simply put the economics are behind a locked down click and drool style operating system with a manufacture controlled store that takes 30% of all gross.
The faster we can kill the Apple and Google store monopolies the faster we'll go back to having operating systems/phones that we can at least do something with.
We still have Linux for now, but as we know signed bootloaders present a very large risk.
- chankstein38 1y agoI miss usable operating systems that don't feel like they were built for cavemen while people who know how to use them get to click more and more "Additional properties" buttons/links to get to actual useful settings.
- distances 1y ago> We still have Linux for now, but as we know signed bootloaders present a very large risk. Thankfully there is a fair number of Linux-first companies now, so I'm not that worried. It's a real business case now. Years ago there were none, you couldn't even buy a laptop without Windows.