I could not agree more the one hope I have is the concept of open source and free software. That is the one concept humanity got right. It’s not perfect but it’s the one small glimpse of a star trek like world.
Very true! I mean, sure, maybe Microsoft and Apple win in terms of eye candy elements present in their software, but a bigger effects budget doesn’t fix a bad script - Linux and even Ubuntu are several orders of magnitude more versatile than either Windows or MacOS. And this is just OS-wise, there’s a metric truckload of open source apps which blow the ‘officials’ out of the water entirely!
Humanity is clearly geared toward collaborative survival and evolution, every single genuinely decentralised thing which is not driven by profit feels so much more Real and human than the market-borne alternatives.
Yeah they win purely on marketing be that fud or monopolization of standards like file formats. If it was a fair fight open source would be the standard. I kinda wish there was an org who’s job was to just advertise open source software to regular people all around the world. The best way for people to switch their applications on windows to open source ones then move to Linux after they feel comfortable.
That’s a very good point, and SteamOS pretty much proves it - newness is less scary with a guide.
It’s what the monoliths do as well, though their ‘tutorials’ are mostly covered by just how railroaded the user is by all of the limitations.
Heck, took me a while to get on Lemmy when thinking about looking up then subbing to familiar communities, but then I found a list with links to equivalents for most of the ol’ Reddit stomping grounds, so it was just a matter of signing up then clicking through several hyperlinks, which was significantly easier! Took about 15 minutes to be back at doomscrolling.
I could not agree more the one hope I have is the concept of open source and free software. That is the one concept humanity got right. It’s not perfect but it’s the one small glimpse of a star trek like world.
Very true! I mean, sure, maybe Microsoft and Apple win in terms of eye candy elements present in their software, but a bigger effects budget doesn’t fix a bad script - Linux and even Ubuntu are several orders of magnitude more versatile than either Windows or MacOS. And this is just OS-wise, there’s a metric truckload of open source apps which blow the ‘officials’ out of the water entirely!
Humanity is clearly geared toward collaborative survival and evolution, every single genuinely decentralised thing which is not driven by profit feels so much more Real and human than the market-borne alternatives.
Yeah they win purely on marketing be that fud or monopolization of standards like file formats. If it was a fair fight open source would be the standard. I kinda wish there was an org who’s job was to just advertise open source software to regular people all around the world. The best way for people to switch their applications on windows to open source ones then move to Linux after they feel comfortable.
That’s a very good point, and SteamOS pretty much proves it - newness is less scary with a guide.
It’s what the monoliths do as well, though their ‘tutorials’ are mostly covered by just how railroaded the user is by all of the limitations.
Heck, took me a while to get on Lemmy when thinking about looking up then subbing to familiar communities, but then I found a list with links to equivalents for most of the ol’ Reddit stomping grounds, so it was just a matter of signing up then clicking through several hyperlinks, which was significantly easier! Took about 15 minutes to be back at doomscrolling.