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No, it's not a stretch at all. The user experience is the same, except that Debian and F-Droid apps don't come with antifeatures built in. The only friction i

by kragen 1y ago

No, it's not a stretch at all. The user experience is the same, except that Debian and F-Droid apps don't come with antifeatures built in. The only friction is around who to report bugs to.

gruez 1y ago
>No, it's not a stretch at all. For one, it doesn't contain non-free software, and therefore can't be the primary source of software. Maybe you're a Stallman acolyte who only runs free software, but that's not feasible for the average user.
- kragen 1y ago
  The average user might have one or two non-free programs they depend on that aren't websites. Maybe AutoCAD, or Photoshop, or SketchUp, or Excel, or the driver for their oscilloscope, or Dark Souls. Everything else can easily be free software or webapps. So an "app store" that doesn't contain non-free software can be the primary source of software, and for almost all Debian or Ubuntu users, it always has been. The average Ubuntu user doesn't even have those one or two non-free programs. After all, Autodesk doesn't provide a version of AutoCAD for Linux in the first place.
- WD-42 1y ago
  If you are running Linux non free software in the exception, not the rule. I myself can’t think of any that I run.
  - kragen 1y ago
    Try sudo apt install vrms
    - WD-42 1y ago
      Virtual Richard M. Stallman. This is hilarious, I'd never heard of this. Thanks for sharing. No surprises on my system except for the firmware-intel-* packages. I thought those were free software? Must be binary blobs.
      - kragen 1y ago
        Yup. Which is why the real Richard M. Stallman has often used MIPS laptops.
pabs3 1y ago
Not sure that is entirely true: https://wiki.debian.org/PrivacyIssues https://wiki.debian.org/PrivacyIssues