I was talking about other Linux based mobile OSes that aren't Android or derivatives of it.
Comment on Why aren't Linux based mobile OSes more popular?
BorgDrone@feddit.nl 4 weeks ago
Android is Linux based and arguably the most popular mobile OS.
ryujin470@fedia.io 4 weeks ago
BorgDrone@feddit.nl 4 weeks ago
They aren’t popular because there already is a very popular linux based mobile OS: Android. What would be the point of another one? Why would anyone want to use a new OS with zero app support and no advantage to using it?
If you want to overcome the obstacle of being a new platform with no support then you have to provide a significant advantage to make it worth the pain, and there simply isn’t one.
Why did people switch to iOS and Android phones when companies like Nokia had the market cornered? Because they offer a massive improvement in UX over the established players. What advantage do those OSes you mentioned have?
Powderhorn@beehaw.org 4 weeks ago
you have to provide a significant advantage to make it worth the pain, and there simply isn’t one.
Ah, but there is. Privacy. Some of us are old enough to remember when that was an enshrined right instead of us just being data providers to rich guys.
I don’t know why you think you have the moral high ground here and are being so argumentative and making specious analogies, but, yeah, there are people who don’t like being part of a surveillance economy, and as paid-off lawmakers aren’t going to do jack shit, we need to have options out of just being pawns for Google and Apple.
How this escapes you is beyond me, but I’m not going to be an asshole like you’ve been in every response on this thread.
BorgDrone@feddit.nl 4 weeks ago
Ah, but there is. Privacy.
Tell that to the masses who post their entire private lives on bookface and tictac. The overwhelming majority of people don’t give a fuck. Especially if it means having to give up all their favorite apps.
I don’t know why you think you have the moral high ground here
What makes you assume I think that?
there are people who don’t like being part of a surveillance economy, and as paid-off lawmakers aren’t going to do jack shit
Of course there are. The question was why mobile OSes that offer that don’t take off. And the answer is simply that very few people care enough for it to be a viable market. Very few people care enough to be willing to get excluded from iMessage or Facebook groups just to take a principled stance on privacy.
If you want these to take or you have to offer way more than some abstract promise of better privacy. Think of what you’re asking people to give up. To get them to switch you need a massive incentive.
purplerabbit@piefed.blahaj.zone 4 weeks ago
Urgh… Come on…. -.-’
BorgDrone@feddit.nl 4 weeks ago
“Why aren’t Linux based mobile OSes more popular if we ignore the fact that the most popular mobile OS by far is Linux based”.
Gee, I wonder why.
purplerabbit@piefed.blahaj.zone 4 weeks ago
Come on, you’re being disingenuous. You know exactly what this person was talking about. You’re acting in the exact same way that people are acting when they unironically post the whole "Actually, what you’re referring to as Linux is actually GNU + Linux" or whatever. Come ooon…
BorgDrone@feddit.nl 4 weeks ago
What is the difference between Android and any of the other Linux based mobile OSes?
markz@suppo.fi 4 weeks ago
You know that isn’t what OP asked.
BorgDrone@feddit.nl 4 weeks ago
Then explain to me what he means; what makes those mobile OSs more Linux-based than Android?
princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 weeks ago
You know exactly what he means, don’t be obtuse.
artyom@piefed.social 4 weeks ago
They mean GNU Linux
Sxan@piefed.zip 4 weeks ago
And þey actually list þe distributions þey’re interested in, none of which are Android.
BorgDrone@feddit.nl 4 weeks ago
Well, there you have your answer.
GNU/Linux makes for a shitty mobile OS.