Year of the Linux.. phone?
this post was submitted on 14 Apr 2025
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I think it will be usable like desktop Linux in 2028!
I sure hope so.I keep hearing good things about Sailfish OS and gave it a look on YouTube but tbh I'm quite disappointed with its current state.
Even worse is it requires using a Sony phone ๐ yeah Sony, that brand that everyone forgets produces phones because they are so garbage (and I say this as someone who's owned 3 of them).
This still seems misplaced for FOSS.
lead developer moves to US
"IT IS NOW A USA PRODUCT, DO NOT USE! STAND FAST BROTHERS!"
lol
Also AlternativeTo is Swedish๐ธ๐ช
Awesome! I was wondering about that. Nice to know. Thanks for sharing.
FOSS has no country lines though
Technically true, but there are still some implications of the location where a project is being developed out of, such as:
- Regulations
Some countries mandate things like backdoors, or try to compel employees to produce data on their users. Session was actually a victim of this, where a government employee showed up at a developer's home trying to see if they could get a backdoor built into Session. (Under the Assistance and Access Act, which allows them to compel any service provider to undermine encryption)
So they moved out of Australia.
- Fiscal support/sanctions
Users generally might want to know if their donations are going to a country that they aren't allowed to send money to because of sanctions, or they could also just have issues with funding that economy. For instance, I wouldn't blame someone for preferring to fund software not developed in the USA for the time being, because they don't want to do anything in any way to prop up the economy of America after what it's been doing to the world. I say this as an American myself.
- Not everything on AlternativeTo is FOSS, or always self-hosted
Many of the services there are not FOSS, and thus could be tied to corporations that have larger influence in markets (see my previous point about fiscal support to countries you don't want to support) or could be more likely to be compelled to release user data.
There's also the fact that many of these services can be paid for to have hosted, instead of you self-hosting them, even if they're FOSS, and people again might not want to support the economy of a given country, or might have concerns that the regulations there could open them up to a higher risk of being spied on, even by passive collection techniques.
The US already has massive surveillance infrastructure to passively collect data on network connections within the country, so some people might prefer to keep any hosted data outside of the US, for example.
This. The EU should just fork Silverblue. I'm using Bazzite and Aurora... What a wonderful distro family.
How's aurora for a beginner?
I'm currently using Linux Mint and I'm happy, but the limitations are starting to show their bare teeth. I am planning to buy a tuxedo laptop soon and I fear with the new hardware Linux Mint will be a hindrance with their outdated packages, so I'm considering a fedora-based distro.
Any info you'd like to share? I'm not a developer, just a regular user looking to use Linux as a daily driver.
Does it show alternatives in general or is the goal to avoid a certain kind of product or feature?
It's more about showing information in general, but I consider their neutrality a good thing.
If you're looking for buying more European check https://buy-european.net/en
If you want less US in your life check https://www.exit50.com/
exit50 seems to suggest Firefox is German and Brave is Swiss which is.... not the case
I just checked and on my end it labels Firefox as being from Canada, so don't know what's going on there. Suggested changes through the feedback form, so hopefully the people behind this will change it soon.
It's probably an AI generated website. There are so many errors that we decided to ignore it.
Thanks for replying, might not suggest it next time. Seems buy-european.net is much better maintained anyway.