If Software Freedom Conservancy win their lawsuit against Vizio for GPL violations in their TVs, and similar lawsuits reach LG webOS TVs, then RootMyTV will be helpful for replacing the LG webOS with open source Linux distros with Kodi or KDE Plasma Bigscreen. Allowing the vendor operating system to remain on the device after you purchase it basically means ads/spyware these days.
Miles ahead in what sense? Swiss army knife of shit you dont need is sometimes inferior to just having a small PC if it suits you better. Feel like itd enable more control and privacy
Miles ahead how? It sucks. It looses wifi all the time and I have to do a crazy change on settings. I got tired and got a Fire TV Max. No more problems.
My experience with the open source TV software is that they're all buggy and terrible. I don't really want to be tech support for people in my family complaining the TV doesn't work because the software is janky. I'll just keep the Roku TV software and do some DNS blocking and that will be fine.
The proprietary software will of course continue to be the default that most people use and that is fine for folks who don't mind the misbehaviour or are capable of blocking the misbehaviour. Eventually the blocking might no longer be possible though, because for example a proprietary software update on the device switched to DNS over HTTP or TLS instead, which would circumvent the blocking.
https://sfconservancy.org/copyleft-compliance/vizio.html