• PonyOfWar
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      711 year ago

      They’ll soon be forced to allow sideloading, in the EU at least. Should open the doors for proper alternative browsers.

      • TheEntity
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        651 year ago

        I loathe the very fact they made people call it “sideloading”. It’s just installing on your own terms, like it used to be the norm.

        • pjhenry1216
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          191 year ago

          Well, it’s a carry over from its early days in how it used to work. You needed to install things via USB debugger. Generally that’s all sideloading ever meant, transferring information from one device to another using a generally “local” method (SD card, USB, etc). Now sideloading, on Android at least (as it retains its original meaning elsewhere), just means not from the official repository.

          • LinkOpensChest.wav
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            91 year ago

            I just activated Windows 10 on a laptop I bought from ebay, and I was reminded that Microsoft too wants people to view its official store as the default way to obtain software.

            One of my goals for this weekend is to set up a dual boot for Linux Mint, which I’ve never done before. I’m fully aware of its limitations, but I’m getting so tired of all this crap.

              • LinkOpensChest.wav
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                21 year ago

                I have an old laptop that I’m planning to use to test different versions of Linux so I can get a feel for it. I will let you know if I have questions. I appreciate the kind offer!

            • pjhenry1216
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              31 year ago

              Yeah, I’m not sure what Microsoft is attempting with S mode. Its just such a half baked concept to me. I’d rather a simplified group policy interface or something if they wanted simplified restrictions.

              But yeah, dual booting is a great way to transition. You can also do Windows in a VM, but not sure how licensing works or if you can use an OEM license in there.

              • LinkOpensChest.wav
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                11 year ago

                It just seems much better for me to set up a dual boot. I know it’s more work, but it’s not like it’s irreversible, and I think it would give me a better experience overall.

                  • LinkOpensChest.wav
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                    21 year ago

                    Does this comment seem fresher from Linux :P

                    I finally got Linux Mint set up and joined the forums. First I tried it as a dual boot, but my old laptop never played well with Windows anyway, so I went ahead and did a full install. It’s got a HDD so I don’t feel to concerned about using this as a test machine and overwriting multiple times.

                    After I use this for a while, I want to try some of your recommendations. Then once I find exactly what I want, I’ll consider what I want to do with my main rig. Some people have warned against dual booting, but it worked just fine for the short time I had it set up like that.

                    Anyway, I still have your comment saved for reference, so thanks!

      • katy ✨
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        21 year ago

        They’d still be restricted to the Webkit rendering engine though, right?

        • @[email protected]
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          191 year ago

          If you can sideload anything you want, why would that be the case? I don’t think there’s a technical limitation, they just don’t allow it on the app store if it doesn’t use safari.

          • katy ✨
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            61 year ago

            Oh that’s true, I always thought iOS just didn’t have that capability at all but that makes sense that it would just be blocked at the App Store level.

        • @[email protected]
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          51 year ago

          If you can sideload an app there’s nothing Apple can do to stop you from shipping a new rendering engine.

          • @[email protected]
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            1 year ago

            They can still prevent the JIT from working because the resulting native code would not be signed. That would result in worse JavaScript performance in such browsers, but considering today’s hardware and software optimizations, it may not matter that much in practice.

            • @[email protected]
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              81 year ago

              Yes, but the point of the law is that apps that you install that are not from the official store actually have to work. It even has clauses so that installing stuff from different sources than Apple can’t intentionally be a worse experience than the official app IIRC. That might be just for messaging though.

    • Jvrava9
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      31 year ago

      Very sad that Firefox does not provide an .ipa file of firefox without webkit. Jailbroken, trollstore and altstore users could benefit of extensions before apple allows sideloading.