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Originally Posted by fatalsaint View Post
This is unfortunately why Red Pill needs to go... because it's too "easy" to use.
It is very easy do dpkg a .deb by just reding on a forum "to install this app put it on the SD and run blabla/blabla" - even a monkey can copy-paste knowing it will get a banana!
It is even easyer to enable the extras-devel with no red pill required to totally mess your device up.
And to top the cake with a cherry there's the nice installable rootsh that opens the way for ultimate bricking - all easy to install and use.

You people don't get that this is not your geeky home computer, this is a mobile device that people have to be able to use easy and on the go.
No one has enough distributive atention to play in terminal while walking on the street nor can they type while barely hanging around in a bus (yes I do use the bus :| )

I suggest a nice and elegant solution: Make a nice "app" just like "rootsh" to enable the red pill mode and put them both in the extras-devel.
Is it that much to ask?
People that don't use rootsh will most likely never install "pillsh" either.

Originally Posted by GeneralAntilles View Post
Where in the world are you finding all these .debs to install, anyway?
There barely are any.
I found the debs for Open TTD and wanted to install them MANUALY just because I CAN, that was it.
I found it unconfortable and painful that to simply install an application I had to use the keyboard, but as that wasn't enough, things are going to be much nicer after completley removing red pill.

In my opinion, and I mean it in the most non-offensive way, the fact that you people think it's "better" to use terminal and make that judgement for all users out there makes you uber-lame geeks!
It's because of people like you I write this message from a windows OS instead of Linux, people like you guys made a great OS but keep dragging it down with their nerdyness.

People learn and adapt more easily with interactive menus and GUIs - I know many of you might consider a blinking cursor interactive, but most of us do not.

Every user+ eventualy gets to the commandline for a reason or another, but getting there ("this soon") for barely installing an application - it's just sad.