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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 hate the home screen. I can't use widgets, and I can't arrange the icons the way I want to. I prefer to have space between some of them, I don't like being restricted to a simple grid. There's also no dock, and only one home screen. There's also no app drawer to get to rarely used apps that I don't want crowding up my screen The very first icon my home screen is for Nova Launcher so I can get out of that screen quickly when I foolishly hit the home button.
Edit: you also can't sort the icons alphabetically. You have to do it manually.