My dream phone would basically be a phone jammed into a small handheld console with a big battery. Like stuff a pixel into a gameboy advance and that'd be perfect.

In many cases that accessibility is a full-on neutered replacement for a previous system that offered more user control and customizability, removing options from power users, so one man's progress is another man's step backwards.

As someone with a second hand Galaxy from seven years ago, yeah there's not really much difference. Newer phones are slightly more annoying to use, actually.

Only difference is lack of updates for security and latest android, turns phones into ewaste long before the end of the hardware useful life.

There's no forced Gnome 3 (and it's not been called that for a long time either), because you choose to install it, have the freedom to install anything else you want, and can customise it infinitely if you so choose.

Besides, Gnome is great. Maybe you don't like it, but it seems odd to say that the way Linus Torvalds uses Linux is the "wrong" way to use Linux.

If you want to keep using Gnome 2 there are a million forks that are actively maintained, or idk you could just use another desktop. Nobody is forcing you to use gnome but you aren't entitled to having a project do things the way you specifically want.

Pi hole is required internet safety

There's gotta be a market for taking cheap smart TVs, replacing the guts with dumb tv, and reselling it, right?

What's the point of being so pedantic?, they were obviously not advocating for more Roku installs.

Tizen is actually pretty fun to hack tbh

People just need to install lubuntu or some Linux distribution on their pc. Tech companies for years have forced consumer upgrades for average pc users when it wasn’t necessary.

I have a photo company in my town that still ruins dos off of windows 95 and has internet for email on windows 2000s for their point of sale machines is all dos. Even dot matrix printers. I was born in 1984 and remember this. Shows you don’t need the latest tech

This is why permissive licensing isn't good enough; copyleft is essential. (And not just GPLv2 copyleft, but copyleft with anti-tivoization and cloud loophole protection as well, such as AGPLv3.) Every part of the system -- the tech itself, the management, and the legal/business structure -- has to be designed to resist being subverted against the user.

Always be ready to migrate.

or be ready to contribute to the project you use, so they don't have to sell out to google.

I've been a developer for decades. I've contributed to FOSS code and do a lot of my own development.

I just want a desktop that works. No fuss.

Yes I could compile my own x11 (and have) but I would rather spend my time doing my own shit than trying to stand up a new VM for some edge issue I'm having.

Just...just give me a UI I can use.

It's why I use Ubuntu.

Linux has come a long way though and it's basically turn key for some distros. Even with flatpak or system catalogs built into the gui.

Freedom and taking ownership (responsibility) for one's actions go hand in hand.

People irritated at having to make their own choices don't get to then be mad that choices are being made for them when they outsource that decision making process, imo.

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I agree. Linux has come a long way, and I love using it. But its definitely not for everybody.

Many times I just don't want to do something because I don't want to invest the time. I also get that there's a GUI that is very capable, but then why is the terminal easier sometimes?

I also need to look up everything I do. That's probably me just being a noob but I can never look through the system and figure out how to do something. Everything I do is an internet search first, then an implementation. Again, probably just lack of knowledge on my part but comparing that to the average Windows user, I can see the allure of adding AI to just do things you ask it to. Time is valuable and if you're not invested into your system then its not worth it to most.

My favorite feature is honestly so simple. Denying network permissions during install.

I'm genuinely curious, what makes NFC a necessity? And what do you mean by auto?

I bet it'll be more like a subscription for an LLM upgrade, since they're shoving "AI" into the OS, it'll need a bit of local processing power but then you pay to connect it to a beefier server