Comment on I wish there were more articles about tech not tech biz
Quicky@lemm.ee 6 months agoI wouldn’t disagree, and I’m not saying FOSS is inferior, I’m just whinging about the Linux evangelising.
There is no perfect OS that can have universal approval. However if I’d I said “Windows is a data-harvesting nightmare” or “Being locked in to Apple ecosystems is constricting and expensive” then I’m sure I’d see the upvote button hammered on Lemmy. But to seemingly question the validity of Linux as a silver bullet for the vast majority of desktop users is borderline heresy.
Corgana@startrek.website 6 months ago
I won’t dispute that fanboyism is thing, I don’t think many evangelists as it were view Linux as a “silver bullet” just as the most ethical option given the alternatives.
Also, I should add that many view open source software as having the potential to one day be the “silver bullet” in a way commercial software can never be due to it’s structure.
Quicky@lemm.ee 6 months ago
I’ve been reading about its potential for a long time. Maybe next year will be the year of Linux ;)
Corgana@startrek.website 6 months ago
If your barometer for “potential” relies on market share, then you don’t really understand what motivates a person to contribute effort to a FOSS project in the first place.
Quicky@lemm.ee 6 months ago
What’s your barometer, bearing in mind you said it had the potential to be a silver bullet? Silver bullet for what?
I don’t want to sound defensive, but please don’t assume I’m not invested in FOSS. I’m on Lemmy, Mastodon, Pixelfed and am the developer of half a dozen small FOSS projects on GitHub.