Limma Baos

Chill out, dude. Drink some water. I don’t know how the hell you got offended by my comment. I pointed out this is a perfect opportunity for another phone os to popup (hopefully linux based) in a jokey way, even calling us users stupid (look up “c’mon, do your thing/do something”. I can’t believe you’ve never came across this meme before). I never said devs aren’t doing enough, you assumed that. Linux user friendly enough for most people? The most trivial thing for you can be really complex for others without experience. First time you can’t fix something exclusively using the UI, people will bail. Users need to be able to solve things intuitively. “touch button, thing happen”. There isn’t anything intuitive about opening terminal to install an app from the repository because the default app store version is broken. This is where you’re right: people will stick to what’s familiar. Someone bought a pc that came with Linux and gave it a try. Installed google chrome and it wasn’t loading videos, looked up quickly how to fix it and the first link, or even a chatbot, told them to open the terminal and type a bunch of nonsense. User will close the browser and ask a cousin or whatever to install Windows for them because they just wanted to watch youtube while studying (even though the steps for the fix were just copy/paste). And you missed the point confusing enthusiasts with regular users. Nobody will need to learn how to install an os that comes by default on the phone, but no company will want to ship a phone with an os that doesn’t have potential or a big userbase of enthusiasts (those are the ones that will learn how to install Linux). Android started as a startup that showed something with potential before eventually being bought. Graphene os, despite being based on Android, is growing well, so much so that they partnered with Motorola to ship enterprise phones with it installed. It’s just silly to think there is nothing the community can do. People created amazing stuff before, and will do it again when some feel like it.

The number of apps people created to make something more convenient for themselves and then decided to share with the community is very high.

The amount of stuff their LLMs must’ve seen by now.

There was never a better moment for linux to shine than now. C’mon smart people, do something for the dumb stupid generic user. An actual good usable linux distro for phones, bring back firefox os.