Luffy

If you only need iTunes for your iPod, there is a music manager alternative on Linux, its a GNOME app but I dont know the Name

For old games Theres ScummVM, and if its the DRM that wont work you might as well just pirate it, since you own the games anyway

Also I meant about 80% of all users, who only use it to browse the web and use some simple things like image viewers and stuff. For those people, Linux would be more than enough, if not even better because most software is OSS, but most of them just don’t want to learn how a computer works, and instead just opt for the method I just described

Would mainstream users benefit from having Linux pre-installed on their laptops?

Installing Linux is the easiest part of switching to Linux. If Linux was 100% the same as Windows in terms of user experience, everyone would have switched to Linux by now

The problem is that people nowadays are just as tech incompetent as they were when the first computer came out. Instead of having a basic understanding of how to use a computer, they just memorize where do click in order to Start application x and do thing y. So the Moment you just slightly alter the workflow, they just lock up. Next time you are at a normie friends house, just try and put a link from their desktop into a folder with the same Name. I will bet my ass they will lock up the Moment the icon of that link has changed.

for the average user.

So we are talking about an average user, who

• fully understands the appeal of a degoogled Phone
• Willingly spends extra money for a fairphone
• is able to migrate away from google services to /e/'s services
• Is willing and able to troubleshoot any problems that MicroG has
• is willing to fix not working banking apps
• but somehow can’t use a simple web installer from Calyx

Tell me, is this average user in the room with us right now?

Everything works out of the boy.

So does (and does not) with Calix or Graphene

Buy a Pixel.

I think you don’t get what I’m talking about.

-It takes a base level of understanding why you would buy a Fairphone (or any degoogled phone)

• it takes a base level of understanding phones to be able to use a degoogled one
• If you already have that knowledge, you might as well just take an extra 5 minutes and use the web installer for calyx since it is literally the same AND has less vendor lockin than /e/

Edit: You want an average user friendly ROM? Just use Lineage for gods sake.

there is still some goggle code in that.

But that code is open source, and it has been verified that it dosent track you.

I mean, you could use CalyxOS

It dosent have such things as 2 factor pin auth for fingerprint, but its the closest to Graphene

/e/ has built in privacy features

/e/ uses a for profit 3rd party for unencrypted backups. That alone should be a big red flag.

is google-free and runs MicroG

So it runs google. MicroG just limits what data is sent to google.

You can even use your apps that you purchased from the PlayStore.

You can do the same with aurora store. That’s available on just about every phone.

https://frame.work/de/en/products/16-usb-c-cable-epr

It only 2 Meters, but the bricks cable is another meter too so its more like 3 Meters

Also its only 14€

Lets remember that these Cables do not say anything about their Specs, so they may as well just be usb 1 cables without anything

Way too expensive for way to much marketing, and no real technical specs

You want a good charger? Buy a 4 Meter long one from Framework, it even comes with a 100 Watt charging brick

Also their Data collection policy is pretty Bad

And also it is way more energy and water effeicient to just run a normal non Smart device like once every week