You go to GitHub, click fork and now you're the new project lead.
It's always kind of weird to see people (not you, just something I often see in these threads) treating open source projects like they're commercial products where they can make demands.
These are projects done in people's free time and their work is provided to everyone for free. Sure, report bugs and feature requests but crossing into personal attacks on the developers or going full Karen ("red flag" is usually a good indicator of this type) is out of line.
Don't use projects that you don't like, sure. But no person is entitled to dictate how another person's project should go. That's why there's a fork button.
There are hand recounts, audits and many other safeguards already prescribed by laws that have been in place across multiple presidencies both Democrats and Republicans have been in power and none were able to find anything but incredibly rare fraud done by individuals.
You are not alleging anything specific or providing any actual evidence of actual failures in the system on a scale that could have changed the outcome. This is just like in the Big Lie election denialism.
You're not talking about reality, you're trying to spread conspiracy and conjecture based on fear, uncertainty and doubt.
You are talking exactly like the people who promoted the Big Lie on the right. You're trying to poison people against our democratic systems with lies and conspiracy.
It's bullshit based on no evidence and reliant on people believing a conspiracy. You're spreading misinformation.
Oh yeah, chat is such a popular feature. I love how it is constantly full of spam and death threats. Lets elevate that great content to my lock screen.
Most people lock their phones with biometrics which can be legally compelled from you.
If you use a password you can refuse to provide it.
If you're living in a world where the police are willing to literally drug and torture you then your digital security requirements are beyond the scope of what you can get from social media and you should assume that everything you do is publicly known.
I'm not talking about the average user. I'm talking about how the software is useful to me and other people like me.
The average user needs to be coached on how to double click or to open a PDF. Holding a conversation about any software or technical topic from the point of view of an average user is a fools errand.
I've read "just recompile the kernel" together with "just switch to [distro_x]" more times than I can count to... :D
Sure, ignorant people exist. If someone posts about a Windows problem they get the same generic advice as well.
The difference is that even given access to an expert, in Windows you're limited in how much information that you can get about the problem. If you're lucky you get an error message that matches an article in a knowledge base which will contain some rote process that allegedly solves the problem. You usually don't get logs and you have no ability to debug (because the source code is proprietary). If that fails you can open a support ticket and hope, eventually, that someone competent can solve your problem.
Given access to an expert in Linux, you can trace the problem down to a specific line of code in a specific library and know the name and email of the person who wrote it.
In both cases, if an average user was involved they'd immediately give up and post on Reddit about how their computer is dumb.
Someone coming from Windows would just use the proprietary drivers. It isn't like they're not used to using proprietary software.
The open source drivers (Arch: 'nvidia-open', not 'nvidia') have different problems but installing a completely open source system is an advanced task. If a user just wants to install a driver with the least effort then they'd just install the nvidia package and not the open source drivers.
It isn't a dealbreaker it's just a thing to know. Anybody who's at the point of trying Linux will have had to wade through a sea of people informing them of Nvidia issues, anti-cheat issues, etc.
The trade-off is that you can use an operating system that isn't shoving ads in your face, spying on you and forcing you to get a new PC with a TPM.
For some people that is the dealbreaker. They often find that giving up HDR for a few months, not playing Apex Legends and typing into a terminal is a small price to pay for being able to trust your operating system to be working for you and not for shareholders.
Of course it isn't practical for all purposes, the people that believe that are either ignorant or a caricature. I was addressing the specific task of gaming.
In that task, it is very workable. There are some caveats but the fact that the Steamdeck exists and is popular is testament to the state of gaming on Linux.
I have no desire to Google search how to do basic things on a computer.
That's not because of Linux, but of your unfamiliarity with it. You needed to struggle to learn to do basic tasks in Windows when you were learning it and now you don't. Windows didn't change, you just learned
I'd need to use Google to do basic tasks in Adobe's software, but that doesn't say anything about the quality of the software, or it's usefulness... only my lack of familiarity. If I had experience with their products then I wouldn't need Google.
Hand over the project?
You go to GitHub, click fork and now you're the new project lead.
It's always kind of weird to see people (not you, just something I often see in these threads) treating open source projects like they're commercial products where they can make demands.
These are projects done in people's free time and their work is provided to everyone for free. Sure, report bugs and feature requests but crossing into personal attacks on the developers or going full Karen ("red flag" is usually a good indicator of this type) is out of line.
Don't use projects that you don't like, sure. But no person is entitled to dictate how another person's project should go. That's why there's a fork button.