The alternatives are not as easy use

The use case for those is doing what we could do on the internet 15 years ago ourselves but it has been so bastardised that it is too inconvenient now.

Why would someone get a free OS from anywhere other than the developer website?

Yes and no. I support foss and am trying slowly to move myself. I would love a linux phone but supports are not in place to have a similar experience. Banking apps and app availability and feature parity are barriers. Consumers would move to something new if it filled their needs, see blackberry to iphone.

I hate microsoft so I dont care that they lost but they didnt give it enough time to build for sure, but you had huge apps like snapchat saying they wouldn’t build for their phone. This is limiting exposure.

The fact is moving out of tbe established duopoly is more akin to choosing not to have a device then it is choosing a competitor, it may aswell be a palm pilot you move to in some instances.

That isnt how it works. We may have preferred others if they had been better, we were not given that option. I would prefer if windows phones existed as an alternative but they had very limited third party support.

Consumers couldnt take a phone where all their apps would not work.

Sucks that they focus solely on google produced phones though.

I really dont mean to be a pain…but could you walk me through this?

I actually meamt to click linux gaming

…does this just install it for me? I’m not understanding what to do here.

I had used lutris initally but steam became my go to for whatver reason.

Obviously fuck this, but your arguments are the same for public transport. Government run, easily tracked and has paywalls.

It is an efficiency, decency, environmental and cost decision. Waymo loses all. Convenience currently is its seller.

Yeah my thoughts too, cant imagine what could have put it on my pc or wjat tjeir goal is because I only got linux recently and there is very little installed.

It said it was gnome related but thats all I know.

Thanks, I had tried a few emulators and they didt show. I didnt realise the file ws just a link to open the manager.

I’ll admit it is a slight concern of line since moving to linux. I will get a level where I can tust myself to find the correct installations but right now I am happy to have it curated and if isnt on the list I will spend some time finding the original git or website…and figure out how to ijstall that

Thank you, it was opening with a different software manager called just “software” with a blue instead of green icon.

DDG was great, but it absolutely has gotten worse and now gives tailored results. If I search a random name I will get doctors and business people with that name in my area even with location turned off. I moved to qwant.

They always sucked, they used to have a list of some software that I used and downloading through them inevitably got you multiple.other prompts for third party shit and random download buttons.

Enshittify?

10% the size of google is decent. If I had ten percent of a tech giant’s reach in any particular sector I would consider myself significant but I get where you ae coming from

I went looking for a quick explainer on this and that side of youtube goes so indepth I am more confused.

The pixels are too expensive for me to do this 🤮