@abcdw the point of #FreeSoftware (just like many things in life) is not that the user by themselves, as a single human should understand everything.

The fact that it is possible to audit the code means you can ask someone to check things for you, or you can rely on a community of many interested people to check.

Also, when someone says "I can do for you what you want, but I won't tell you how", it is always a bit suspicious.

@abcdw this is a unhealthy take and leaves out the dev community as a whole. A lot of volunteers do understand the code and are here for those others. If we take that argument and apply it in a medical situation, let’s say in a hospital for example. Would it be foolish for the patients to go there to get treated, even though they don’t understand it nearly as well as the head doctor? No it is based on trust and the other workers are something like our help to make us understand and rely on them.

@abcdw It's also a completely different starting point if you have to disable the fingerprinting telemetry and fight on every update for your settings to be respected. Also you never know if your private company account gets canceled if you did a wrong think some were or some when on the internet. Maybe you curse to much in a xbox game and now your Microsoft account is deleted but you used it to log into your PC - good luck! How about your bought product license got converted to a subscription?