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Google's new rules could wipe out sideloading and alternative app stores, F-Droid warns
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I don't think that's the right answer. Android isn't a good operating system, it's a great operating system for mobile. All these mobile Linux distro projects face a monumental challenge to reach parity with Android on almost any metric. Even if any one of them was backed by major investment, I don't think they'll ever succeed...and if they do, we'd just end up with multiple competing open source operating systems which just creates pointless fragmentation.
Android is open source, but it's held by an evil monopolist. The most effective path to freedom on mobile is legal/regulatory, and supporting efforts to break Google up. They've already been declared an illegal monopoly twice in two separate cases. The first one ended with a slap on the wrist, because the judge was a spineless coward. The second one is currently in the remedy phase, and hopefully will have a real impact.
Nothing is built overnight. Your claim that it “will never happen” is going to be so wrong.
I really hope so
This is really naive. Mobile Linux is never going to happen for many reasons.
It would be better to spend effort on lobbying regulators to prevent this move.
Naysayer whose about to be proven wrong. They said desktop Linux was never going to happen or that putting a man on the moon is impossible…
Desktop Linux is still an extremely niche userbase, even with SteamOS and Microsoft doing its absolute best to aggravate users.
Desktop Linux still hasn't happened...
Almost everything works on desktop linux, there’s lots of written guides for it and 6% marketshare is pretty impressive.
Not reliably though. I installed Kubuntu on a recent desktop just last week and had to revert it from Wayland back to X11 because every time it woke from sleep Plasmashell would crash and VSCode windows would be blank.
Also it's 4% (of desktop, 1.5% overall) according to statcounter. Which is admittedly not bad, but I wouldn't say it's enough to say it has "happened".
I mean every distro has a different experience.
There are sources that show it’s higher than Statcounter’s estimate and many in the community consider that website to be inaccurate as there’s a lot of pcs under the unknown category since Linux folks tend to be more privacy focused. It’s big enough that developers are now factoring Linux support for projects.
Too expensive, unfortunately.