Except most of them will never be “there” without support, but also because the commercial options have the resources to out develop them at every turn.
And the truth is, maybe it needs to be more about ideals. Not caring about them is why we are seeing the current trends we’re seeing: people put convenience above choosing to support something they believe in. That’s why Chromium is everything now. That’s why Windows is increasingly shitified and anti-competitve with no serious consequences. That’s why a significant number of people that opposed Spez are still on Reddit fulltime. If the average user was a bit more idealistic, maybe there’d actually be a movement to push back on these trends. But they don’t.
It’a not about being against open source, it’s about putting practicality over ideals. Some software simply isn’t there yet.
Except most of them will never be “there” without support, but also because the commercial options have the resources to out develop them at every turn.
And the truth is, maybe it needs to be more about ideals. Not caring about them is why we are seeing the current trends we’re seeing: people put convenience above choosing to support something they believe in. That’s why Chromium is everything now. That’s why Windows is increasingly shitified and anti-competitve with no serious consequences. That’s why a significant number of people that opposed Spez are still on Reddit fulltime. If the average user was a bit more idealistic, maybe there’d actually be a movement to push back on these trends. But they don’t.