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7 months agoTons of companies are shipping Linux without giving users access to the source code, it’s just that only one has the term “Tivoization” named after it.
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Tons of companies are shipping Linux without giving users access to the source code, it’s just that only one has the term “Tivoization” named after it.
F-Droid is the more valuable app store anyway. I always check there before Google Play.
I’m not a classic Linuxer (I switched in 2015) but I did once try Mandrake out of historical curiosity. From what I hear it was the recommended “beginner-friendly” distro before Ubuntu came out. And based on how hard it was to get working on a VM, I now understand why classic Linuxers talk about Ubuntu like it was this huge sea change.