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Blort™ 🐀Ⓥ🥋☣️Personally, I suspect that Manjaro forking and going to a non-profit with community governance would actually be the best case scenario, as long as they can also secure some funding.
I wonder how Google's protectionist schemes will impact downstream ROMs like GrapheneOS, who will presumably alter the OS to allow installing from anywhere.
Still you can only install apps that exist, and Google's plans would likely hugely limit the range and popularity of independent non-Google apps, by limiting the audience.
Seems to me like we really need to focus as a community on getting at least one Linux phone fully daily driveable with reliable calls, texts, mobile data, camera etc.
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quixote@Blort @thelinuxexperiment "Seems to me like we really need to focus as a community on getting at least one Linux phone fully daily driveable with reliable calls, texts, mobile data, camera etc."
100% agree!
And with the GOOG's crapification, I don't think we have all the time in the world either.
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#sailfishos is very much daily drivable by these standards, has been for years. It's all the other uses, and their often hidden Google dependencies, that are the bigger blocker of adoption.
Take for example banking apps. Mine does work on the Android emulation of SailfishOs, but only after installing microG and some OS-level tweaking. Others run flawlessly - for now. Others don't. And the banks? They don't want to hear anything about this. It's quite a leap of faith to trust access to your bank account to an emulation layer the banks refuse to support.
And so on.