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And until very recently you could install whatever apk you wanted on your android phone.
You still can.
That's changing though.
People keep flocking to Linux, not just to escape Windows
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Re: People keep flocking to Linux, not just to escape Windows
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#213I switched to Linux in the past month. First, I installed GNOME based Fedora 43, that was a mistake. I got it working "somewhat" like Windows, with Dash to Panel etc. widgets, but stability was not there after all the hacks. Then I figured I try KDE Plasma, and this is so close to Windows that I made the switch permanent. Even little things like double-clicking on top, or bottom resize handle vertically maximizes the…
Try Activities and set a shortcut to Meta-Tab to switch between activities. I love it so much for running several projects at once and keeping all my browser/terminal/IDE/SSH together and out of each others way. You can also use Meta-Q to bring up a list.
Also, Meta-T for snapping windows into tiles with Shift-Drag multiplies that organization.
The sheer productivity gains of using Plasma makes Windows look pathetic.
Re: People keep flocking to Linux, not just to escape Windows
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Many content rights contracts I see instruct the streaming platforms that they must detect Linux and either give low quality or deny the playback entirely. It's because, rightly or not, they don't trust Linux in comparison to MacOS and view it as a piracy vector.
I think it's because stuff like HDCP pretty much requires a "trusted" (i.e. locked-down) implementation.
Apple is considered golden because it's hard to tamper with the video pipeline. Windows isn't perfect but you can take steps. But overall 90% of premium content is not viewed on computers, it's TVs and STBs.
If it wasn't going to get blocked by some prominent factions on principle, I think you could build some trusted web technologies that allowed secure video delivery pipelines. But there's too much of a position that nothing like that should exist from some quarters that it'll never happen.