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Originally Posted by Andy_D
What is it about the Fire OS that's so terrible?
I never swipe left or right, so I never see or use any of the screens designed to keep you in the Amazon ecosystem. The only screen I ever see is the home screen and that one resembles the simple desktop of desktop OSes with icons for apps I installed arranged in the order that I want them. I group some of them in folders. I put all the Android apps in a folder that I never use. I use a file manager (Es File Explorer) to open videos and books etc. It's not perfect, but, imo, it's simple and servicable.
So my question is not rhetorical. Why is stock Android so much better?
P.S. I recently tested a development reported a couple of months ago in XDA developers that shows how Amazon apps -- all the crapware -- can be deleted without rooting via a simple ADB command. It works. So it shouldn't be necessary to even have a never-use folder on the desktop or have the system be slowed down by never used apps running in the background.
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I am not sure I can really pinpoint one thing to be honest. Maybe it is that I am more comfortable with Android. Especially stock. I usually buy Amazon tablets for my kids and I just do not like the swiping between games, videos, books, etc. It seems like that should be a good layout but, for me, I just find it clunky. I think it has to do with the different sized icons every time you swipe left or right. There is no uniformity. I even replaced all my fire tvs with shield tvs because the interface felt clunky to me.
I am familiar with ADB commands from messing with the fire tvs so, maybe I will play around with some of the tablets I have.