Open source is a license. What you’re referring to is “source-available.” You can’t legally fork, redistribute, or contribute to it.

On GNOME, I like BlackBox, though Prompt looks promising once it’s stable.

Actually, the primary dev is no longer active. The other developers have moved to a fork called Input Leap that has Wayland support.

Maybe try Input Leap. It’s an actively maintained fork of Barrier (Barrier isn’t maintained), and it has Wayland support.

Maybe try Input Leap. It’s an actively maintained fork of Barrier (Barrier isn’t maintained), and it has Wayland support.

Most of what you said applies to the Linux kernel too. It’s good to have other options, but being popular does not mean something is bad.

That should work, though you may want to look into Framework instead.

Also, KOReader adds a bunch of extra features and functionality.

Kindles are really hard to root. Use XDA Developers forum for this kind of thing. https://xdaforums.com/t/fire-hd-8-2018-only-unbrick-downgrade-unlock-root.3894256/, which is what that guide is based on, looks like it only works for the 2018 version and seems way more difficult and risky than most ROM installations. Also, that won’t install Linux, just a different Android version.

Honestly, an actual ereader might work out better for you if that’s all you plan to do.

You can’t do that. Installing custom ROMs on Android devices is very different than installing an OS on a desktop/laptop. Most devices don’t allow changing the OS at all, most of the ones that do don’t have any Linux builds, and then you’ll be stuck with whatever distro you’re given (probably UBPorts or maybe PostmarketOS) rather than choosing your own.

I think their RSS feed has a placeholder title for this.

Yes. Why?

The app itself is closed-source, but they use PyPush, which also has a blog post explaining how it works.

The problem is that breaking it will also break a lot of Apple devices.

Yeah, MacOS wasn’t originally intended for x86 CPUs.

Tiling addons. I like having a full DE, but I also want tiling, so Pop!_Shell on GNOME and Polonium on KDE are invaluable (and yes, COSMIC looks really promising).

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Wayland is a “display server,” which basically means it manages the way GUIs show on the screen. X (most recently X11/Xorg) was the standard for over 30 years, but it was designed for computers 30 years ago. Modern concepts like scaling and high refresh rate displays need extensions to it, but it’s really complicated and hard to work with, so a lot of improvements that need to be made can’t be made. It’s also fundamentally insecure, as every window has access to both the contents and the input of any other window. Wayland is a modern replacement that focuses on security and expandability, and basically everything is working on switching to it. There are growing pains, but it’s constantly improving, and most distros use it by default now.

Great answer. People frequently think that Android phones work just like desktops, but they are very different.