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Not actually usable, but I found this entertaining to see.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 11 months ago (2 children)

It would actually be cool either way.

I don't personally like iOS. I kinda hate it when I have to use it, even.

But it would be cool as shit for users to be able to choose their OS even more than they currently can. Hell, even a gimped partial version with a long-ass series of disclaimers and limitations would be a welcome thing for users. I despise windows, and I still wish people could freely load it on their devices if they wanted to.

Yeah, I know, there's huge technical hurdles making it hard to pull off, even if iOS and windows were fully open source, but can you imagine being able to pick between all the major OSes as your needs require, on almost any hardware? That would be cool as fuck.

[–] Dougtron007 4 points 11 months ago

This guy gets it. No need to gatekeep either way you let it hang.

[–] LifeOfChance 2 points 11 months ago

This is the right way of thinking. I personally can't stand IOS but thats me. It would be awesome to have the option to run any OS even cooler would be if you could pay to have it official which of course will never happen.