I want to talk about our gateway products to open source. You know, that one product or software that made us go, "Whoa, this is amazing!" and got us hooked on the world of open source.
What made you to jump ships? Was it the "free" side of things like qBittorrent? Did you even know that some of your programs are open source before you got into the topic?
For me those products were:
- Android
- Firefox
- VLC
- Calibre
Am thinking to order some merch and I wanna make it more accessible to people unfamilliar with open source culture. Now, am looking for fairly normalized but still underrepresented product -- maybe it could serve as a conversation starter and push some people to open source
I just recently put linux mint on an old gaming laptop, and it actually functions well now! After that, I installed it on this mini PC we use for streaming, and I'm thinking my next rig (or at Windows 10 end of service) will be some form of Linux. I always heard it was so hard to use. I actually find Windows harder to use because I'm constantly battling against it thinking it knows better than I do.
Whoever said Linux was hard to use was either a Windows/macOS shill, a Gentoo noob, or said it back in the '90s or 2000s when Linux was mostly quite hard to use.
I've seen it a lot. Maybe not on Lemmy, but it was definitely something people parroted all over reddit.
Of course, I've also seen people on reddit say that Lemmy is so difficult to use, so I think a lot of people just say these things without having the slightest clue what they're talking about.