For sure, it would obviously be better if it was available from the official store. The bigger issue here is that computers are slowly turning into appliances nowadays. It’s most obvious with mobile devices where the machine is locked from you by default, and you can only install software via vendor app stores. However, this is also starting to bleed into laptops as well with stuff like chromebooks and ms surface.
I think this is an incredibly dangerous trend where general purpose computing is becoming a niche thing.
And since most people don’t care about this problem, and don’t even understand that there is a problem it’s easy for companies to keep locking down the devices they sell more and more with each generation.
The problem is, most people don’t have F-droid installed - so take up of federated platforms is pretty much always by foss-inclined nerds.
For sure, it would obviously be better if it was available from the official store. The bigger issue here is that computers are slowly turning into appliances nowadays. It’s most obvious with mobile devices where the machine is locked from you by default, and you can only install software via vendor app stores. However, this is also starting to bleed into laptops as well with stuff like chromebooks and ms surface.
I think this is an incredibly dangerous trend where general purpose computing is becoming a niche thing.
And since most people don’t care about this problem, and don’t even understand that there is a problem it’s easy for companies to keep locking down the devices they sell more and more with each generation.