Android so good they made installing software sound cool and hacker-y like βuuuh Iβm not supposed to be doing this :3β as you install a fucking weather app or sumn (sideloading)
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(Gigantic megacorp titan dumps billions into forcing a cheap thing on mass culture for further control of everything, selling at a massive loss to artificially inflate adoption rates)
"Wow! So many people use this thing now that an ultramegasupercorp did it to exploit countless masses of normies before their competition did! How did that happen!? I guess this must be the winning 'linux' of the future!"
No wonder it annoys Linux evangelists: We just want a world where we use computers, not the other way around.
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The android model is the windows model
Considering chromeOS "freedom" is wild.
It's only truly free when the write protection screw is removed
Annnnnd in my case, running very complicated scripts provided by genius level volunteers to overwrite the bootloader (to Libreboot I think?) so it could accept a Linux OS because Chrome OS told my mother in law:
"We decided we're done caring. Throw this device out and buy a brand new one."
She's been happily running Mint and getting her browser and security updates ever since.
Chromebooks and ChromeOS were an e-waste generating scheme from the start.
My work gave me a choice of a chromebook or a windows laptop when I started since the company uses the Google stack for everything.
I asked if I could get a high end chromebook and it was approved. Its easy to install linux apps in the dev container and they run seamlessly with the the chrome apps on the desktop and the window manager has multiple desktops (which is how I like to do things). Since I have to use Gmail and Google Docs for work anyway, the chromebook is really not bad and much better than having to use Windows.
Iβm sure it works great but itβs like curing a toothache by breaking another one out on the other side of your mouth. My problem with windows isnβt how difficult to use it is, itβs how restricted and how connected it must be. I donβt have full control of the system and Iβm required to have external accounts for it to work. Same with chrome.
My data is mine, I donβt want it accessed, owned and controlled by a faceless internet corporation.
So, professionally I do not care what system I am expected to use, they are all functional. If the person signing my paycheck is comfortable with it, so be it (in fact, Iβm a big proponent of externalizing risk in a corporate setting). Personally though, Iβll keep up my greybeard routine :).
Image refuses to load over my VPN. Well played, consider me thoroughly annoyed.
Then your VPN provider is blocking catbox. You should switch to a different VPN.
Catbox doesn't even work for me via Tor. Should I switch to a different, less censory Tor?
P.S. Residential ips are the most valuable for VPN users, and if residential providers block Catbox, then the value of using a residential VPN obviously wins over Catbox.
Images refused to load and Iβm not on a VPN.
Using Voyager on iOS.
Chromeos is actually more Linux than normal Linux, because it has three different types of Linux packed into one.
Add to that all the tracking and supporting an evil megacorp!
I feel like it kinda stops being Linux in a way once that's done.
It's funny how my opinion of this really is:
Linux > Only using a smartphone (GrapheneOS) > Only using a smartphone (LineageOS) > Only using a smartphone (ARM Linux) > Literally not having a computer at all > Returning to the woods and living completely off-grid for the rest of my sorry days > Screaming into the void hoping it claims me > Chromebook > Mac > Windows
I just did Linux/Chromebook(derogatory)/Mac/Windows but it really didn't capture my disdain for the last 3 enough
Iβd swap the chromebook and mac at the end there. The ewaste that is a chromebook is at best a glorified netbook, the macs at least have some decent hardware options that can be leveraged.
To be fair, part of this is my own experience. I've owned a Chromebook (still have it... Somewhere?), and know how it works. I've never once touched a Mac xD
my list is:
linux>windows>Screaming into the void hoping it claims me>>>Android(one of the better ROMs)>Android(one of the worse ROMs)>IOS>"Smart" TVs
Returning to the woods and living completely off-grid for the rest of my sorry days Screaming into the void hoping it claims me
To be fair, these are great optionsβ¦
The Void already has claims to all of us. The Void actually enjoys and needs the screaming, so it'll be patient and wait until your warranty runs out; when your particular version stops getting patches and reaches EOL.
When that happens, it'll welcome you, and you'll get sent to /dev/random instead of the recycle bin or the trash can.
Note: You'll have to wait for enough entropy in order to get to your next destination. How long that takes depends on how many people are screaming into the void at that time π€·
There is only one piece of software named Linux and that's the kernel. Android is as much a legitimate distribution of Linux as is Alpine Linux.
You don't sound annoyed. You're failing OP.
Maybe OP is annoyed?
doubt Surely OP's post was purely informational..
Still enjoying the lenovo chromebook I got running Fedora, with 0 problems
Stallman: Android-shmadroid. That's why I always insist on "GNU/Linux" name, not just Linux.
Given Ubuntu is testing replacing the GNU coreuitils with uutils, we might have to start unironically calling it systemd/Linux.
I prefer the "shit" term regarding Ubuntu :)
I use shit/Linux btw
Nice attempt, actually. I am immune to such things, but it definitely should work on younger people.
wouldnt that term also include android?
I believe we should find some more rude term for Android.
Given Ubuntu is testing replacing the GNU coreuitils with uutils, we might have to start unironically calling it systemd/Linux.
The differentiator is glibc. That's what defines binary compatibility. Ubuntu still used glibc, Android uses Bionic.
"New Linux? But nobody's really adopted the old one!"
I use fydeOS btw.
Real men use Hannah Montana linux
Real men should update.
Just write your own updates.
I use Arch, BTW.
Yeah, yeah.
Laptops arent desktops?
Just need to take it off the top of your lap and put it on top of the desk.
The term "desktop" has more than one meaning and in the context of which operating systems are used on desktops, it certainly includes laptops. π
The term βdesktopβ has more than one meaning and in the context of which operating systems are used on desktops, it certainly includes laptops. π
Samsung DeX = desktop Linux. You heard it here first, folks.
Yes, you are quite right: I heard about the existence of "Samsung DeX" here first. It's such an obscure thing that I (a Samsung smartphone user for more than half a decade) hadn't heard of it before. I had certainly heard of Chrome OS before even though I've never used it.
DeX is more often used on Samsung tablets with attached keyboard. I didn't check but I assume it's being merged with Android's upstream desktop mode.