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How many FOSS Do you use?
| Define FOSS
| Everything but video drivers, WiFi driver, and some games.
| Lots of proprietary crap on my gaymen machine
My laptop runs like 95% free software
Exceptions are stuff like Wifi drivers, and a few games
| i use a foss windows 10 built from sources
| >>48873 Free Open Source Software
I always search anything i need but open source, if there isn't any then i'm like fuck it and go proprietary
I'm very interested into using linux but muh vidya :(
| why use FOSS tho? the ones i can think of that i use are firefox and atom but they are good because both are backed by a large-ish organization.
other than that, regular FOSS are typically shit compared to their closed source counterpart (even freeware ones). prove me wrong tho. dev tools like package manager or compiler don't count because they generally had an obvious huge community/corporate following.
| >>48975
I'm in the same boat here
Using free software where its viable, but there is just too much proprietary stuff without any decent free alternatives.
And also "muh vidya"
| to be honest i just use Foss software because I just think that they're trustworthy and nothing else
| >>49015
no. i'm saying that all foss are shit except ones made for dev. regular user apps like music player or image gallery are gonna be either not feature complete or has shitty interface, mostly has shitty interface.
| Does Blender count as a FOSS?
| A large amount of Foss is made by people who have a RTFM mentality, they put their time into making new features instead of a pretty ui
| fair enough, but a good ui doesn't equate a pretty ui. it can also mean a good workflow. for instance a loading bar is always preferred than a program that freezes or show a black screen everytime you try to load a file
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| Guess I'll describe mine later