You have many options today already, and the problem is not in hardware at all, the problem is in fucking users who immidiately begin to whine each time they meet something that can't run their fucking Windows, Photoshop, MS Office, games and other crap.
Open hardware exists for a few years already, in form of RISC-V/POWER/MIPS/SPARC CPU's where you still have to trust chip manufacturer, but at least could choose one you are fine with, or in a form of open source IP cores that could be uploaded to any decent FPGA where you are in full control of your CPU.
And no, none of that CPUs will run any iOS/Windows with their crappy software. Only opensource systems and opensource software. So, you pretty free to buy/make computer that you will control already, but looks like very little people really ready to forget about iOS/Windows bloatware.
They whine every time they have to spend a week of their life fixing something they aren't equipped to understand. Then after whining they switch to something that works so they can stay productive.
I say this as a Linux user. The burden is on the hardware makers to market their product and make it accessible to the consumer.
When hardware makers take an attempt to make something average customer friendly, they end in something like Android.
Interesting that decade ago Nokia tried to roll out smartphone on real Linux (Debian fork), not that Android mockup over Linux kernel, pretty useable, unlike Linux based Motorolas and it was a huge success, Nokia N9 sells outnumbered all their Windows Phone phones combined despite N9 was not sold in some regions. Guess how that ended. Microsoft bought Nokia and closed its Linux department. Then Nokia disappeared. Interesting that Microsoft totally ignored Android, and never tried to interfere with it. Android phones was perfectly OK for corporations, but not real Linux ones.
So i doubt that any corporation will make something Linux based preserving all openness and user control.
That rich guy will need his own country and a powerful army.
It is kind of closing technology that threatens all world corporations and governments. Imagine - they build that surveillance bloatware money-sucking arena of personal computers for decades, and suddenly somebody roll out a clean computer and OS everybody like and could use for decades. All their enormous surveillance efforts and trillion investments turn to dust. TPTB bombed entire countries for much less.
You have many options today already, and the problem is not in hardware at all, the problem is in fucking users who immidiately begin to whine each time they meet something that can't run their fucking Windows, Photoshop, MS Office, games and other crap.
Open hardware exists for a few years already, in form of RISC-V/POWER/MIPS/SPARC CPU's where you still have to trust chip manufacturer, but at least could choose one you are fine with, or in a form of open source IP cores that could be uploaded to any decent FPGA where you are in full control of your CPU.
And no, none of that CPUs will run any iOS/Windows with their crappy software. Only opensource systems and opensource software. So, you pretty free to buy/make computer that you will control already, but looks like very little people really ready to forget about iOS/Windows bloatware.
They whine every time they have to spend a week of their life fixing something they aren't equipped to understand. Then after whining they switch to something that works so they can stay productive.
I say this as a Linux user. The burden is on the hardware makers to market their product and make it accessible to the consumer.
Yes and no.
When hardware makers take an attempt to make something average customer friendly, they end in something like Android.
Interesting that decade ago Nokia tried to roll out smartphone on real Linux (Debian fork), not that Android mockup over Linux kernel, pretty useable, unlike Linux based Motorolas and it was a huge success, Nokia N9 sells outnumbered all their Windows Phone phones combined despite N9 was not sold in some regions. Guess how that ended. Microsoft bought Nokia and closed its Linux department. Then Nokia disappeared. Interesting that Microsoft totally ignored Android, and never tried to interfere with it. Android phones was perfectly OK for corporations, but not real Linux ones.
So i doubt that any corporation will make something Linux based preserving all openness and user control.
It is going to take some eccentric rich guy who hates the system and doesn't want to sell.
That rich guy will need his own country and a powerful army.
It is kind of closing technology that threatens all world corporations and governments. Imagine - they build that surveillance bloatware money-sucking arena of personal computers for decades, and suddenly somebody roll out a clean computer and OS everybody like and could use for decades. All their enormous surveillance efforts and trillion investments turn to dust. TPTB bombed entire countries for much less.