you are making choices for others. some apps require it. and then the post was about removing gapps, and my point was that it’s not possible to just uninstall it.

most people are not

• technically literate to install a custom rom with a computer’s command prompt
• willing to give up bank apps and sometimes phone based payment

even just considering the first point, it is really not just “some” effort. sure we can do it, but this is a very small bubble.
I think it’s comparable to replacing the windows on your house all by yourself, from selection, across acquisition and taking out the old one, to installing the new one nicely and with insulation.

what? can you show a source? I think you mixed it up with Matrix

ok, but that’s not what most people on this world use. they are basically stuck with a rom that has google services integrated

they didn’t mean to buy from a reseller who got it directly from google, but to buy from people who had it and are selling it now.

most people for whom I help configure their phones they don’t want to buy a new one. and they are often terribly afraid of used phones. I don’t have any google services on my phone, the problem is not about me, but lets be honest, the absolute majority of the world’s population

that’s a replacement to be used on a clean system, but it does not help removing an integrated gms

you can just silence all the notifications, and still know which messaging app out of the 5 has new messages, and whether you got emails, etc

the most noticable change is when the developer built all functionality around every kind of firebase service, and didn’t care to handle the case when those are not available

that’s not my experience, but maybe they changed something recently

that’s true, I meant when you install opengapps to it

yeah, but they use immutable system images that you can’t change even if you wanted to. KDE’s update system is integrated with a systemd component that does the installation after a reboot, I think nowadays that’s the best of both worlds

but does it load all libraries into ram at startup? there’s also all the resource files, including omni.ja that has a bunch of javascript code

I was confused too, but it’s on by default, and when it’s icon is blue

It’s interesting because instead of “display manager” it should be “graphical login manager”, and the current “login manager” should be called “session manager”. I don’t know the origin of the name, though.

it can be skinned

and while we are at that, MPV also has a working reverse play implementation (though that’s like a slideshow), and it can very seamlessly do frame by frame playback, the hotkey of which just does normal playback perfectly while it’s long pressed

it literally has a lower CPU consumption, even when using hardware decoding. and even when playback is paused.

lower CPU consumption means more free resources for other programs, and lower power usage, which is more battery life.

it also seeks much smoother, I mean quicker with less delay

good luck “removing” that while not breaking the system. It so deeply integrates itself that you can’t really remove it even from a lineage os install

it tells you on a new tab. if you continue without restarting it you’ll see its already falling apart