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  • yeah, regular AOSP-likes that need you to manually flash them after support for your device is finally added are not particularly relevant compared to a security-focused fork that’s supported by several flagship phones at release. the latter can actually make it into the hands of the average person. the former, not so much. imagine trying to explain to your elderly mother how to flash lineage onto her phone.




  • back in middle school, everyone was trying to figure out where to find a weapon in goldeneye called the “spyder.” turns out the klobb was originally called “spyder” before it was renamed for ken lobb, and lots of sites on the early internet still used the previous names even after the game released, creating a new schoolyard legend.












  • anewfox@lemmy.ziptolinuxmemes@lemmy.worldLMAO
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    17 days ago

    not even particularly confusing, it’s just two inexperienced users being inexperienced. it seems like it’s only confusing people that know OpenOffice and LibreOffice have OS X versions but somehow don’t know that not everyone knows what they’re doing.


  • you’re right, but i need people to understand that this is simply not a workable solution for most people. the simple fact is if we want the average person to adopt more open source alternatives, it needs to improve usability even without their help. it’s not really enough to only cater to us power user nerds with “good enough,” and it doesn’t win hearts and minds to handwave complaints and tell people to come back with a patch.