Oh, no, I can't use the McDonald's app!
Can't remember the last time I spent money on McDonald's over priced crap.
BearOfaTime
joined 2 years ago
Syncthing-Fork has been out for years and has more options too
Not compromised.
They've been hypocrites for as long as I can remember.
Yep.
But in the Real World, what's the pragmatic difference between Graphene and a well-managed Lineage or DivestOS device, since security and privacy are both managed via layers?
I'm genuinely not being snarky. I tried running Graphene and had issues, and their support was atrociously condescending and critical, so now I'm running DivestOS instead. I've run Lineage on other devices without Google.
So, you're telling us how to use this?
Who died and made you God?
It's the legal and compliance part the downvotes don't understand.
As a business, I would never operate an open-to-the-public network. The liability is too great.
Lots more is holding it back, but I'd agree apps is a huge issue.
It's still has significant issues with being end-user friendly. Needing to use command line for some things that should be a right click, not supporting right click, ambiguities galore when looking at a package repository, odd defaults in packages that one really wouldn't expect to have to check (e.g. Selecting RDP connection in a Remote app, but it defaults the security to something other than RDP?)
As for apps, there's problems like Libre Office devs refusing to support tables in the spreadsheet app, saying data management should be done with a database tool. While they're not wrong, it takes a LOT more effort to setup a DB than to simply click "make table" in excel, which millions of people are familiar with. I create tables every day for run-of-the-mill stuff that simply doesn't need a database. No one has time for that.
Or you plug in the most prolific wireless mouse on the planet, that's been around since 2000 (Logitech), and it doesn't work. Now pick any random piece of hardware and this is the stuff you run into. You go down the rabbit hole of searching for a solution
Or CAD (which falls in your app argument).
Linux is great for many things (things I run, UnRAID, TrueNAS, Proxmox, etc), it's just not a great general purpose desktop for the average user, yet.
Methinks you sit in a glass house:
ox·y·mo·ron (ŏk′sē-môr′ŏn′) n. pl. ox·y·mo·rons or ox·y·mo·ra (-môr′ə) A rhetorical figure in which incongruous or contradictory terms are combined, as in a deafening silence and a mournful optimist.
"Franchise ending" is definitely oxymoronic, as all it takes is someone else wanting to produce it. At best you could say "the current iteration of a franchise has ended".
Bond itself is a great example. It seemingly ended after Sean Connery (there was a short hiatus), then again after Roger Moore and they couldn't get Pierce Brosnan so eventually stop-gapped with Timothy Dalton. Then another short hiatus after Pierce, until it went in a new direction with Daniel Craig, which could be described as revamped/reworked to follow the mood of On Her Majesty's Secret Service (though if you read that book, you understand Sean Connery's Bond better).