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Re:Richard Stallman – How I do my computing by eternityforest on Sunday July 30, 2023 @12:15AM (#36927753)
I use Linux almost exclusively too(Except for things I can use an Android tablet instead for, I really only use actual PCs for programming and media creation). But I often strongly consider switching to Windows, although cost and inertia stop me from actually trying it out.

I think there could be a year of the Linux desktop, and I would love it, but the current Linux community would hate it(As is, they hate most of the stuff I like about Linux, like DBus, The Init System We Only Name to start Flamewars, NetworkManager, etc.

FOSS in general just has way too high of a tolerance for problems. Users seem to see them as a normal part of the experience, rather than as things that are not supposed to happen on a modern system.

There's kind of a culture of "It's free, if you don't like it, fork it and fix it", but you can't actually do that yourself unless you've got years to spend to try to make something resemble commercial software, and there's not much interest.

I'm not sure how to solve the issue of FOSS being unappealing to most..

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