I was being more silly than serious :3

I have a different solution, its called being a transbian :3

Great now gimme one that’s reasonably priced

It also is not an actual OS but just reverse engineered blobs so someone else could make an OS, they might not even be able to port a mainline kernel to any devices

Considering this security bug is gonna be patched soon there really isn’t much you can do with it, I mean in theory you could use a GSI but tbh at that point just get a phone that supports bootloader unlocking. For the sake of security please don’t rely on exploits for the device you store sensitive data on.

Welcome, I also use GOS and I will say its amazing. If you want support or just to chat with other GOS users I reccomend the GOS matrix chat or Discord chat (note due to recent events the bridge is no longer online)

Non technical people also aren’t going out of their way to purchase Linux devices

Its funny seeing everyone here demand an sdcard/removable battery/3.5mm jack claiming to represent all GOS users, actually looking at the GOS matrix chat I don’t see any of these people there. Do any of you even use GOS?

I demand to have an outdated standard for a storage medium with a high rate of failure that’s also slow and causes immense heat, while we’re at it I also demand the charger be micro USB and it to be shipped with a pre rooted install of LineageOS maintained exclusively by one guy in his spare time

The amount is so insignificant that when filtering by OS it doesn’t even show up

Yeah people do shop online that’s what I said, on Amazon and best buy not niche laptop sellers. Also you severely overestimate the average persons interest in Linux, if Linux is not included the average person won’t install it.

That doesnt mean the average person can just use Linux, you cant even buy a laptop with Linux from a standard store that people typically look for laptops in (like Amazon or best buy). If you have to convince people to go to a separate website, manually enter their card details, and pay a shipping fee of $116 along with import fees (yes this is a bit more specific to Tuxedo but my point stands). Regardless of which Linux brand you buy it typically takes 3-5 weeks for shipping. Meanwhile across the board the base price of Linux laptops are always higher than Windows devices (some OEMs like Lenovo hide this by giving a $100 discount but when you consider that Linux is generally only an option for custom orders the total cost is still higher than a non custom standard windows laptop).

Honestly this seems absolutely incredible for the vast majority of people, a good MacBook at a decent price point. Benchmarks haven’t come out yet but I heard its as good if not better than the M1. For the vast majority of people that’s good enough, and even with the worse battery the real world battery life is gonna be amazing.

Also for those complaining about Linux support the main competition is Windows laptops running Snapdragon X Elite which should have somewhat similar performance and also doesn’t support Linux. Hell the snapdragon x2 probably won’t support Linux either. These laptops cost two times as much as this and usually with significantly worse build quality.

There’s no reason for the average person to ever buy another windows device

Your 5070 laptop has 8gb of vram? My desktop 3060 has 12gb of vram and its not even the TI version.

Sounds great but I can guarantee no IT team wants to deal with this

I was referring to the less than one tenth of Americans who support socialism, yes that number is improving but sadly its not even a quarter yet

Less than a tenth of the country

Im currently at the point where I have such a presence on Matrix that I could genuinely delete my discord account

Fairphone is the sort of phone for people who think LineageOS with an unlocked bootloader is secure made by a company who has sincerely promised to make things better but hasn’t substantially improved security (especially in how often they push security patches). Grapheneos is not a brand name you can just apply to give a phone more reputation, its an OS that represents the highest standard of security.