Linux Phones and Unlocked Bootloaders?

Or are computers gonna just go the smartphone route and you can’t instal another OS?

I mean, Chrombooks are the first example of computers being more locked down. Will compouter manufacturers do the same? Mifrosoft now requires TPM on windows 11, could they make “Secure Boot” mandatory for windows 12? (Thereby preventing a linux install)

  • yarr@feddit.nlEnglish
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    4 days ago

    Yes. Open standards always win, given time. No one keeps paying for a closed standard, once the open (free!) one is just as good.

    Like Gimp? Oh, wait that didn’t take over. Well, at least Libreoffice is the standard office suite today, oh wait, that didn’t take over. Well, Linux is the most used operating system at least. Whoops, except Android counts as that and it’s increasingly locked down.

    • pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip
      2·
      2 days ago

      I mean, I can help you can pick things that haven’t won yet all day. Gimp is free, Adobe works hard making a more compelling expensive product.

      Adobe will someday stop innovating. Gimp will not. Gimp’s source code is the more resilient, thanks to it’s license. We (old people) have seen this play out many times.

      Unix, BSD, and a dozen variants used to be the compelling options. Today, using Unix variants outside of Linux is vanishingly rare. Closed source browsers are rare today, and even those are built on the open source browser cores. Everyone is trying to enshitify Android, not iOS, because it’s the resilient licensed software.

      It takes time. Everyone who can make a dollar fighting it, does so. But open standards win.

      • yarr@feddit.nlEnglish
        2·
        3 days ago

        Closed source browsers are rare today, and even those are built on the open source browser cores.

        Any browser that’s not Chrome is rare today. I’m not sure pointing at Chrome as a well-managed open source project is a good idea. Although one can view the source, Google controls the codebase and development process with an iron hand. Any feature that is a good idea technically, but will hurt Google is a no-go to have merged.