Yes, very much so. Everyday; I run a linux system and the majority of the apps on my phone are from f-droid.
Same. Cheers brother. :)
I prefer that it is easy to use, and that it is stable. I don’t care if it’s open source or closed source. I’ll pay either way. Tips or donations or just straight pay for it.
a side note for those that do free open source and want donations or tips, … make it easy to donate. I ran into one piece of software that said please donate. I spent 20 minutes trying to figure out how. I gave up. And just use the software for free.
“to donate, send Bitcoin to…”
Yeah nevermind
Or the better one : to donate go to this webpage, then create an account, so we can go to this webpage , so that way, you might be able to donate. Possibly
Hmm, tough call. Generally speaking I guess I’d prefer freedom over eternally paying rent to the tech oligarchs but then I’d miss out on the benefits of Microsoft’s latest adjustments to the Windows 11 start menu.
lol
I prefer FOSS because it focuses on creating something good instead of something that focuses on extracting as much money possible.
You have two choices.
You can work with FOSS software that is sometimes clunky, but will improve over time.
OR
You can work with proprietary software that is openly hostile and will only get worse over time.
We’re really asking this question on Lemmy? What kind of answers do you expect to get here?
I think this is the equivalent of a lead singer asking the audience “Are you ready to rock!?!?!”
Haha the first part of the question is quite a Reddit-like question, better to ask how pragmatic or fanatic one is in usage of free software.
Exclusively Linux desktop since 2003
Rebooted a total of 3 times
(Ok second one is hyperbole)
bro is still running linux 2.6
The second reboot you mean?
All day every day. I’m a linux user both at home and at work. The only closed source software I use is Bitwig, steam, and (most of) the games I play.
When I need software that does X, and I have multiple alternatives, my order of preference for exploring goes like this:
- Anything that can be installed via apt-get
- Same as above, but with added repos
- Something found on github with a release ready for download
- Same as above, but I build it myself
- Closed source
- Paid closed source
(Notice how snap isn’t in the list?)
Of course, quality of the software matters, which means the list isn’t 100% accurate in all cases. Bitwig is paid closed source, but I prefer that over Ardour, and it’s IMHO miles better.
Yeah if there’s an equivalent.
Yes, I prefer FOSS. The degree to which proprietary software actively works against the users’ interests has increased significantly over the past couple decades, as has the tendency for anything successful to get enshittified. I’m not a hardcore ideologue about it, but if a FOSS option does what I need, and it usually does, then that’s what I use.
Some important software on my laptop:
- Arch Linux
- KDE
- Firefox
- Darktable
- Emacs
- Betterbird
- Joplin
- Syncthing
- VLC
- Bitwarden
All FOSS. I play a few games that aren’t, and a lot of things I access through the browser aren’t. I have a Windows 11 install I used to boot somewhat frequently for games, but don’t since I discovered Lutris takes the fuss out of running most games on Linux.
And on my phone (italics indicate not FOSS):
- LineageOS
- Waterfox
- Thunderbird
- Signal
- AntennaPod
- Waze
- Google Maps
- Joplin
- KOReader
- Syncthing-fork
- VLC
- Connect for Lemmy
- Bitwarden
I have FOSS fallbacks for the things that aren’t aside from a couple group chats in WhatsApp. One of those is toying with moving to Signal, but collective action problems are hard.
As much as possible, I don’t use proprietary software. I bought a Pixel phone specifically so that I could run GrapheneOS (which has been great), and the only non-FOSS stuff I use is basically web tools for communication, like Slack/Discord/etc. As much as web-as-a-platform sucks (and it has many shortcomings), at least things tend to just work now on Linux, one way or another.
I’ve been daily driving linux for at least 10 years and I think I’m using close to 100% FOSS. Except for the stupid nvidia drivers and my steam games.
100%. I try to use open source wherever possible. If it does have to be closed/proprietary, I will only use software I can own, no subscriptions; and the only if I can get them working in Linux (wine has come SO far).
That said, I do still have a windows partition but only for job related stuff.
Almost exclusively on my desktop and has been for about 20 years, it’s my computer and I wouldn’t have it any other way.
Not so on my phone exactly though but I use my phone as little as possible.
This might be a hard pill for a lot of people on here to swallow, but for the average user open source is not a feature. Free is, but the user experience is often worse than for closed source software, so it’s a hard sell even at free sometimes.
I’m always very happy to find Foss apps that defy that stereotype, but they’re far and few between from my experience.
Not trying to shit on Foss apps with this, but I see way too many people acting like the open source aspect is a selling point in and of itself, and it’s not except for to the most techy of users.
In my experience most of them are pretty easy to set up with basic computer skills and a look at the documentation. There are two big problems with that though.
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Basic computer skills aren’t as common as you would think.
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FOSS documentation isn’t written for people without those skills.
That leads to a lot of issues that aren’t terribly complicated to solve but would be showstoppers for regular users. I would not consider myself a high level user but I’ve managed to get quite a few applications up and running with nothing but time and a willingness to be frustrated. The few people I’ve gone into details with about those applications had no clue what I was talking about. Mostly because they would never tolerate the frustration required to get past the initial setup and have therefore never learned how to do any of it.
This is very true, great point.
I also find it very hard to switch to Foss stuff for professional uses most of the time, because of the often rough user experience, or sometimes lacking industry standard features. When you do something full time you want to be using the smoothest version of what you need.
I don’t blame the devs for this either. It’s often one or a few enthusiasts doing it in their spare time for free, so I certainly don’t say this in an entitled way. It’s just the reality.
Yeah paid software babies users, often to the point of being annoying. FOSS assumes you can troubleshoot complex issues effectively. There’s a happy medium somewhere in there but like you said, it’s tough to get there with a limited volunteer dev team.
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This might be a hard pill, but… A lot of selfish people like to be selfish, selfishly. The point of a community is doing a bit more work personally or sometimes making a light sacrifice so that others do better as well.
You should actually slow down and re-read your statement, maybe you don’t know how you sound? Feels like you have kind of a , “sure, I could help out homeless people with some spare change, but where is my personal benefit in that? Now, im always very happy to find the person that I give $.50 in change to and they give me a dollar back to defy the stereotype, but those people are few and far between IME.”
Dude, give your AI girlfriend some crypto so you can ask her a question, and then ask her to define “empathy” for you.
I’m sorry if any of that is a hard pill to swallow.
I’ll be honest, that was so random and meandering I don’t even know what pill I’m supposed to be having trouble with. 🤷♂️
“AI girlfriend, do you like me for me? Like even if I didn’t pay you?”
“I really want to answer, sweetie… Just deposit more crypto first”
