Yup, Adobe and Microsoft def a no-go. Especially Outlook.

For MS, the o365 web apps work as fine as they do on windows. Outlook is nearly at parity with the windows app. (I think they’re slowly making the windows apps web under the hood)

Adobe has to be pre creativecloud

You can run a windows VM, then use remote-desktop but it completely defeats the purpose unless you’re just trying to edge into privacy.

there are to many options and preferences

What you need isn’t what everyone needs. I suspect you’ll have a very hard time finding massive numbers of windows users who only need a terminal.

I sincerely hope that you don’t need one distribution for games and another for developers, Having to reboot to play games is why we’ve had such bad penetration for years.

Every distro needs to be able to handle all the video cards from the last decade. Lutris and Steam need to run really well everywhere or we’ll take forever to get proper market penetration.

I see your /s but we all watched Linux Sebastian burn an easy distro to the ground with ample warnings while refusing to read any information about the distro. And he’s on the long side of the Dunning-Kruger curve for windows.

I think we need everything to work out of the box on all major hardware, no terminal commands, video accelerators working by default and steam to be a one-click install.

Easy for Arch. The Arch community is far too hostile for the first run for newcomers

Honestly, Day 1’ers, I’d rather they run Debian, Mint, Ubuntu, or Fedora. There are strong communities that are noob friendly. Go ahead and install Steam, get some games working, get their feet wet. 99% of the time, they don’t need more than basic stuff. Once they’re over being afraid of not being in windows, then start distro hopping to whatever they want.

I think we need a new worm

I’M FED UP, GOING TO INSTALL LINUX!

• picks a complicated distro where you really need to read the manual or do some heavy google searches to do gaming *

I’M FED UP, THIS IS TOO HARD, I’M GOING BACK TO WINDOWS!

The amount of bailing out should be inversely proportionate to the amount of people fired during record profits.

that would make sense

Everyone who was on Twitter that couldn’t handle X moved, it’s hopping, their algorithm is as good at discovery as Reddit or Twitter. A great deal of my social network that was on facebook moved right over.

Not OP, but…

Finding a single server that fits my interests is the first stumbling block. I follow 30-40 communities here, so I need to pick just one focus, which kinda sucks, TBF.

So I picked one, It was too quiet, but it was a start, then I started looking for interesting people. Hardly anyone famous, the few that I did find ended up being the ones that turned out to be creeps in the news, even assuming they were real accounts, which is probably a generous assumption. When I finally found the few people I wanted to follow, they gradually disappeared over time to Bluesky.

WIth their community lines being split per server and no discovery other than randomly finding someone with your tastes while bebopping around on your server. It wasn’t a good experience.

I REALLY wanted to do a pi phone, and while it’s very possible to make a working phone/tablet out of one, their power consumption is absolutely awful. Most of the linux capable SBC’s can’t do low power.

I want an 8" linux touch screen with 18h of moderate usage batter life, I’m even willing to carry around a separate 4g access point.

First off, thank you for all your work.

Why this hasn’t happened yet

You set the bar pretty high for improvement.

The vacuums are expensive. The work requires multiple top-tier skill sets, and the people with those skill sets don’t generally have enough time to contribute to something this heavy

Somebody could just fork you and clone everything you’re doing, but it’s not like any users would chase someone else versus you when you’re the only one getting actual work done.

It’s also kind of poking the bear for these vacuum companies skirting along by selling user data.

To be honest, it’s probably the last thing that doesn’t exist properly on YouTube.

But like 99.999% of everything else, it’s not on peertube either.

If you hit a Google search, there are probably a handful of projects for Bluetooth, Casio, Python.

There are a bunch of videos of people reviewing the watch, but they’re watch reviewers. Other than the Android or iOS app, they hardly touch that it supports anything.

With every credit card in existence, supporting Tap to pay these days. We have a pretty decent alternative.

Let em all shut me down. If they don’t need my business, I don’t need theirs. I just found out that Casio makes a g-shock with Bluetooth and you can screw with it using python and an unlisted API.

One more nail in the coffin for my smartphone footprint. I just want an 8" linux tablet, a watch that can give me messages from signal and a battery powered access point.

Nothing is free, If they can sell ads to people because they don’t like AI, they will. They’re rebooting it with about the same intent as it was originally designed to have.

If it screamed and cursed as it fell down, I would probably give it a pass.

Wild guess:

Log everything the user is doing. Have clippy interface prompt the user to take some work off their hands. Do some web searches, start storing a dossier about the ‘project’. Give the user a rough outline to complete their project based on a trained llm and some web searches. Ask the user if the outline looks good. Ask the user if they’d like some help completing some of the steps. Burning through tokens the whole time, storing telemetry with 100% knowledge of what they user does/wants to do. Selling that exact data to project management software companies and companies that write middleware to do this work. Bind everything together into a virtual notebook where users can return to any content at any step.

At a minimum, It has stealing, privacy, wage theft, power comsumption, and hardware scarcity issues.

Taking a couple of those away would help. A large part is the fear that it’s taking away our livelihoods, and it’s not even really good at it. It’s also polluting and running on enough pirated data that we’d be sent to prison forever if we, as individuals tried it.

It shines at assisting professionals in specific fields, reading things like body scans, blood tests, and patient histories, and finding correlations. It’s good at helping DevOps/IT people who have to rarely maintain a bunch of oddball systems. It’s decent at finding inconsistencies in code documentation and documenting code that isn’t documented.

It’s bad at art compared to an artist It’s good at art compared to an average electrician.

It’s good at taking work from artists, making side money on Fiverr. It’s great at marketing to CEO’s.

There’s a lot more there than social issues.