Re:Maru OS – Your phone is your PC
by philistine on Tuesday July 29, 2025 @09:44PM
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You picked the exact worst example to illustrate your point. People do not pick their messaging service, it is driven by adoption of everybody else.
That's why you're downvoted.
Re:Maru OS – Your phone is your PC
by const_cast on Thursday July 31, 2025 @11:43AM
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Right, but as ive stated: thats popularity, not quality. There's a difference. Picking something for popularity is perfectly valid.
For Operating Systems and Ecosystems, Popularity == Quality. The more popular a software is, the more edge cases it encounters and solves issues. More people will write software, plugins, tools for it.
Are you saying that Windows is the most high-quality operating system in the world? This is not even funny. Did you hear about the concepts of walled garden and network effect?
There are a lot of people who are not "goo goo ga ga" level users and really need a device.
I've switched to UMPCs because the constant lies and intentional breakage from smartphone vendors drove me up the wall.
glad to see I'm not the only one, if you don't mind me asking, what OS did you settle on? I'm using mint w/ auto-cpufreq on a donki nanote next right now but it's not perfect.
I use Artix on everything these days. It used to Alpine (and before that I was just making my own distros because I didn't like the decisions eg Debian was making.)
That being said, obviously the Librem phone is missing functionality.
Most computer users are goo goo ga ga level users. Most people in the US use iMessage, for example.
It's not the best messenger, not even close. It's not the most ubiquitous either - doesn't even break top 5 globally. Doesn't have the most features. Not the fastest. Not the most secure. Not the easiest to use.
They just use it because it's already installed and right there. That is how deep their understanding and comprehension can go.