Yes but you can literally have “known supported hardware” without literally building a “ground up Linux machine”.

That’s cool but probably unnecessary. The vast majority of hardware works fine.

I definitely opted for an AMD GPU in my new gaming rig specifically to run Linux/ChimeraOS, and hopefully one day SteamOS.

When you get around to a new laptop, look out for one that is Linux compatible. Unfortunately many hardware OEMs don’t take the time to provide drivers for Linux, and that causes problems.

So you don’t think it’s possible for someone to support a project and simultaneously acknowledge that it doesn’t suit everyone’s use-case?

Someone buys an expensive car. They say “I cant use the railway!” Are you going to tell them they’re wrong?

Yes. Because they are.

We dont know if they live next to a railway line. They’re also heavily invested in the car and unlikely to pay out for rail tickets.

None of which indicates they “can’t use the railway”. It may not be their preferred travel method, which is fine (in the metaphorical sense), but to say they “can’t” use the railway is simply untrue.

OP said “the software and driver support isn’t there”.

Someone replied and corrected them to explain the software and driver support does in fact exist.

OP replied to say that what he actually meant was that it didn’t support the specific software and driver they wanted to use.

Seems like a perfectly reasonable conversation.

Technically open source in what definition?

By the literal definition of source code that is open.

You’re not paying to see ads. They’re just subsidizing the cost of the service.

When was the last time you tried to run Linux? The last year has seen incredible progress on that front, thanks to Valve.

No one uses Wine for games anymore.

I switched about a year ago. Not because Linux got better, but because MS got worse.

I’m tired of Cortana. The fact that they try to force Edge onto my PC is absolutely infuriating. And I’m tired of these Windows updates constantly breaking my bug fixes. Never even tried W11 but I hear it’s much worse (unsurprisingly).

It’s actually because the Tensor chip is the most secure one available, and because Google promises several years of software updates, with a solid history to back it up.

https://grapheneos.org/faq#future-devices

Yes, thank you for pointing that out

So, I have a few solutions for this.

First, I use GrapheneOS, so I can continue using Gboard and a few other Google products that do not warrant or require an internet connection, with network access disabled.

Alternatively, the next best keyboard is grammarly (also with network access dsiabled) and you can also use https://voiceinput.futo.org with that one.

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Stop using Google products, people. There are alternatives for every service they offer.

Unfortunately many of the products they offer are a requirement for daily life.

You sound like a Blockbuster executive.

I hope they just ignore them and keep the services running. But I also know that’s not realistic.

Not sure how Signal is going to handle this because they literally built proxies into the app specifically to circumvent this type of legislation.

Apple and Google will put their apps but it’s trivial to just install it from the Signal website on Android. Or basically anywhere else.

Eh, yes and no. I personally loathe that type of media but certainly several hundred million people do not, so it would be nice if there was an alternative for them.

To be clear, Fedi is basically the opposite of private. Every post you make is archived on some 25k servers. Even your DMs.

Also it’s entirely dependent on your server admin and what kind of info they are collecting.

If you want private social media, Signal stories are pretty much all we got, to my knowledge.

You don’t seem to understand that you won’t have a Steam account to go back to.