That honestly looks terrible. It's like their developers haven't heard about fluid design. Why is it only using 40% of the page for actual content, even after I collapse the annoying sidebar. They'd be much better off with a navbar with dropdowns, or fewer links using a hierarchical structure.
Cool, but at that point I would probably just stick with what I have until it can be natively supported, or see if their current config is easy to template myself.
Arch and Alpine are the best distros in my opinion, however for most people Manjaro is going to be a much easier introduction to understanding the installation process. Package management is so much easier and you can also use whatever app sandbox technologies you want.
Pretty cool, but you'd think they would just have a Dockerimage ready to be deployed and a network driver or something similar for these types of challenges.
Absolutely, lots of people are loyal to certain brands or look for the best value/spec in Android devices and make their choice based on that. If people didn't care, everyone would be buying $50 Android devices. Most people I know now even look at the version of Android it comes with.
So you're suggesting that without Google specific proprietary apps and services that Android doesn't boot up and the phone can't be used with third-party apps?
I feel like large companies see developers/engineers like a commodity, give them a spoon and tell them to move a mound of sand. As soon as you tell them you have a shovel, they'll say... well we have spoons, we've always used spoons and you need to continue to use a spoon. We have managers and vendors that take them out golfing that we pay millions of dollars to and we signed a 5 year contract to use spoons, so use a spoon.
The operating system is open source. You are trying to say Google apps and services are part of the operating system, but they aren't. I take it you've never installed a custom Android ROM before, who frequently don't package gapps? Are you suggesting that before you have an operating system, you have to install the gapps APK?
Because that is all the Google apps are really, are one iteration of a group of apps for functionality. You can always use F-Droid and install great open source alternatives.
Because they literally have an open source operating system that is being used by a multitude of phone manufacturers, kiosks, home security systems, developers, hobbyists, security experts, Amazon Kindle, etc without any licensing fees which can be audited by anyone.