Communication with others might be limited without proprietary messenger apps. It could be argued whether Signal counts as proprietary or not, but that's probably the only option alongside with SMS.
Well, I use Lemmy and lurk Mastadon, but I don't use Facebook or anything else like that. I use Google Chat on my computer. But honestly not having things that incessantly ding at me in my pocket is as much a feature as a limitation.
Camera quality likely suffers a lot, without proprietary camera drivers.
I did say "proprietary apps". I'm sure I'm running some proprietary drivers and device firmwares and such. My camera quality is definitely dog shit, though.
Online banking is pretty much impossible without proprietary apps, since (at least here in Europe) every bank I know requires you to use their app for 2FA.
I haven't had issues doing online banking on a desktop/laptop(/Raspberry Pi) with a browser. My bank's 2FA just requires access to email. (So far.) I'm in the U.S., though.
Games will be severely limited, since there's not a lot of non-proprietary apps.
Sure. But there are decent FOSS games like Shattered Pixel Dungeon and Mindustry. Plus I use Lemuroid (emulator suite) a fair amount.
Navigation will be severely limited
Not sure what you mean by this. Like, GPS? Yeah, I don't use that.
In many cities public transport requires you to use their app for tickets
Yeah, no idea. I haven't used public transit to speak of.
Also, I don't use Android Auto. Or my work's 2FA provider's proprietary app, but I have a YubiKey for that. I don't have any cloud backup to Google Drive or anything. Yeah, you're not wrong that there's a lot you can't do on a phone under the restrictions I've placed on my phone, but I'd rather deal with those things than the enshittification I'd get with proprietary apps.
Two books I started reading knowing I'd disagree with the author:
Introduction to Austrian Economics. That school of economics is helpful as a model for understanding economics, though only through the lens of an idealized system. The same way that understanding how a point-like mass moves helps you understand how a canon ball moves. But then it goes on to say that your inalienable/natural right to safety in your person is basically the fundamental property right from which all of what the anarcho-capitalists call "theory" directly derives. Which makes it rather circular. "Property rights ∴ property rights."
The Singularity Is Near by Ray Kurzweil. I knew my reaction to it would be visceral, but defending DRM was the last straw. I finished the Austrian Economics book. But I didn't get a quarter of the way into the Kurzweil book before rage quitting.
Follow Scrum, Lean / Kanban, or eXtreme Programming to the letter, and let your team focus on the product.
This.
But invest in learning how to do it right. Hire agile coaches to help and listen to them. "Agile theater" helps no one and only breeds hostility to any attempt at improving the process.
Everything you're saying is good and valid points. And yes, the future may be bleak for Linux like the present is for Android.
But at the same time, I'm tapping out this very comment on a rooted phone with an unlockable bootloader without any of the Google apps and in fact running zero proprietary apps.
I think the option to use Linux the unenshittified way in which it was always intended to be used will be there for the foreseeable future the way it, quite frankly, still is for Android despite Google's best efforts at killing open mobile computing.
So, I'm not a recent convert to Linux. I've been using it pretty much exclusively for over 20 years now. And almost entirely Gentoo and Arch.
And I'll tell you... the Gentoo community is hard core. The sort of hard core that will not tolerate any enshittification. They'll make sure Gentoo stays pure.
And I'm not just talking about "free from corporate influence". If Gentoo announced that moving forward, only SystemD would be supported as an init system (and I don't think that's likely any time soon), a big part of the community would fork Gentoo and declare they could take OpenRC (or runit or whatever) away when they could pry it from their cold dead hands.
No matter what enshittified Linux distros come to exist in the future, that lifeline of purists will always provide a way to buck enshittification. And that's a lifeline that the Windows and Mac ecosystems don't have.
So, while I have little doubt that enshittified Linux distros will exist (indeed already do exist -- after all what is Android but enshittified Linux?), I think opting out of said enshittification will continue to be an option for the foreseeable future.
Two caveats:
I do think the likelihood is that the opting-out-of-enshittification option will largely skew toward a more technical/hacker/power-user sort of user base.
Some things that aren't exactly "Linux" (or within the Linux ecosystem) may well enshittify in ways that negatively impact Linux users. For instance, I'd imagine web standards will get more and more captured by corporate interests. WEI will probably return as a web standard. That sort of thing. And while that's not so much about Linux, it will affect Linux users.
How long is this kind of shit going to go on before we start having a serious conversation about making "limit dependencies" a widely-agreed-upon fundamental security practice? Right along with "validate your inputs" and "encrypt sensitive data" and such.
Well, I use Lemmy and lurk Mastadon, but I don't use Facebook or anything else like that. I use Google Chat on my computer. But honestly not having things that incessantly ding at me in my pocket is as much a feature as a limitation.
I did say "proprietary apps". I'm sure I'm running some proprietary drivers and device firmwares and such. My camera quality is definitely dog shit, though.
I haven't had issues doing online banking on a desktop/laptop(/Raspberry Pi) with a browser. My bank's 2FA just requires access to email. (So far.) I'm in the U.S., though.
Sure. But there are decent FOSS games like Shattered Pixel Dungeon and Mindustry. Plus I use Lemuroid (emulator suite) a fair amount.
Not sure what you mean by this. Like, GPS? Yeah, I don't use that.
Yeah, no idea. I haven't used public transit to speak of.
Also, I don't use Android Auto. Or my work's 2FA provider's proprietary app, but I have a YubiKey for that. I don't have any cloud backup to Google Drive or anything. Yeah, you're not wrong that there's a lot you can't do on a phone under the restrictions I've placed on my phone, but I'd rather deal with those things than the enshittification I'd get with proprietary apps.