For the casual user, they Just Work™. The famous ones like Stean, at least (I tried it sometime ago, it’s better than the flatpak version nowadays). If you never change your cursor, never check out your partitions, etc. snap’s problems aren’t as visible

This is why I love flatpak and sandboxing in general

He can’t even be re-elected anymore, he doesn’t need to watch his tone or anything. But maybe he wants to look all classy and detached lol

He went from looking like a teenager to a mysterious and morally ambiguous character in a sci-fi story

Can you do that even if the bootloader is locked (as it is on many phones nowadays)?

Android is open source (and also Linux), so there are many custom OSs that aren’t “fancy linux”, but just Android without Google apps. See: LineageOS, GrapheneOS, e/OS. You might be able to install one of them on your phone if it’s compatible!

I don’t know, I’m not hopeful.

Stallman played a BIG role in the insurgence of Linux (and FOSS in general), but he famously disregards smartphones as he thinks people should just not use them.

Plus, phones are built different: many have a locked bootloader, and there is no standard like BIOS/UEFI, meaning you must compile a slightly different OS for each model.

What I’m saying is the mobile ecosystem is built in a way that makes it very difficult for a serious AOSP ecosystem to build up, let alone a different kind of Linux

With MicroG you barely feel the difference these days

Doesn’t MicroG (foss reimplementation of Play Services) fix that?

Installing F-Droid (or anything outside of “official” stores) already gets you a bunch of scary warnings that non-techy users would perceive as “omg malware!!” and withdraw from. I’m confident that the Venn diagram between F-Droid users and people who would be willing to use ADB to keep it is a circle. The real problem is that this cuts off anyone without a computer

Pardon, I remembered it so from a graph I saw a few months ago. Perhaps I misremembered, or perhaps things changed since then

Arguably the biggest contributor to the Linux ecosystem is Red Hat, a for-profit company that offers its technologies to the Israeli military among other things. The biggest contributor to the Linux kernel is Red Har, while the second biggest is Meta. The Linux ecosystem is not inherently nonprofit!

wdym, ballots are usually secret

Truly following Hitler to a T

When I’m in a moving the goalpost competition and my opponent is a linux evangelist

Linux systems don’t rely on extensions to tell a file’s type afaik

hot in general but definitely not on lemmy

Okay, here we go…

The term “larper”, more often than not, makes discourse worse

If any sensible regulation was put on generative AI, they would quickly go out of order

For real. You can grab a cheap used phone for 80 bucks, put lineage on it, and never install any apps except for the very basic preinstalled ones. Boom, dumb phone