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I want a linux phone. But you know what I want first?
I want a Visual Studio level IDE that I can develop Linux GUI application in. GTK is an amazing piece of software, and there are some beyond amazing GTK based applications that I found and started using.
As someone who has not done linux GUI development before, the biggest issue is getting started. Android has first class development support, and so does iOS. Linux has Glade for GTK and QtCreator for QT apps.
Vala is an amazing first step, and the code makes design & development super easy. But there is still a disconnect between design and development that hinders adoption. If there was a nice "all in one" application where development can be done like. You could see the hype, and then disappointment, when https://github.com/akiraux/Akira was announced and it looked like such an IDE. But alas.
The Rust GTK Bindings also look really good, but I think the biggest hurdle that needs to be overcome is making Glade either more user friendly and making it tie into an IDE like Builder, or have an IDE like IntelliJ support it.
>Still requiring Google Play Services to do any of the things I want Android for.
If that's a problem, are you aware of microG? https://microg.org/
> Spotify is a big ask because google would have to port widevine (the web DRM.)
Spotify shouldn't be a problem [0][1] using librespot [2]. As for banking, I can't speak for all of Europe, but web apps are generally optimized for desktop use, apps have some convinient features, like scanning the QR code of a bill and pay it with one tap, instead of having to type in everything manually when it's on paper, or copy paste it from a PDF.
Additionally some banks require an app for 2FA for the web interface on PC too.
[0] https://github.com/kraxarn/spotify-qt
> Perhaps the answer is as simple as "there's a setting buried somewhere that all technically-literate Windows users change"
With all the editions and versions of Windows 10, there doesn't appear to be a single definitive answer to that.
I for one settled on https://github.com/marcosbozzani/Win10ActiveHours , which prevents reboots by scheduling a task to update Windows' own "Active Hours" twice a day.