@raven667 @thomasfuchs I own a FirefoxOS phone...

@raven667 @thomasfuchs I own a FirefoxOS phone (https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefox_OS) and I can confidently say: it sucks. Yes, part of it is the extremely cheap hardware, but part of it is also the software.

Like 15 April at 6:38 | Wall-to-wall | Open on darmstadt.social

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Jiří Fiala Total Landscaping

@claudius @raven667 @thomasfuchs let's face it, user-facing FOSS is usually a subpar copy of commercial software. I use a ton of FOSS on my home lab and elsewhere but that's how it is.

15 April at 6:57 | Open on mas.to

Claudius

@stooovie
As someone who is running Linux on my daily-driver laptop (Ubuntu, Debian, Ubuntu and currently Fedora) for well over a decade, I sadly agree.
With very rare exceptions, FLOSS is playing a constant game of catch up.

Also I don't *nearly* spend as much time on fixing shit on my Windows PC as I do on my Linux laptop.
@raven667 @thomasfuchs

15 April at 7:07 | Open on darmstadt.social

Jiří Fiala Total Landscaping

@claudius @raven667 @thomasfuchs I think the strengths of FOSS are in the backend and experimentation. User-facing apps are almost invariably better commercial.

15 April at 7:14 | Open on mas.to

Claudius

@stooovie I think, for the most part open source is now at a weird "good enough" state. I get by very well with LibreOffice, Firefox, KiCad, VSCodium, Kdenlive, digiKam, OBS Studio, Inkscape, Krita, Blender, Joplin and quite a few others.

Integration is what really sucks, though.

I enjoy using some of them, I tolerate using some of them. Overall I'm pretty happy that I have all of these. I'm glad that I can contribute to them, I like that I can sometimes influence their trajectory slightly.

15 April at 8:12 | Open on darmstadt.social