I Can't Use Free Software. Proprietary Software Is BETTER! DistroTube
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Date: 2022-03-30
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Oleg
Making software is expensive. Making good software is even more expensive. Why would anyone invest money into making any unique software just to give it away for free? Unless it is made as a tool specifically to control markets and kill competitors like how Google uses Chromium. And to make anything really important with high quality you need to hire not just software engineers, but highly qualified experts in very narrow domains. Their time costs even more. To get something in capitalism you need to give something in exchange. Why do you think everything related to Linux is looking so incredibly ugly? Couldn't they hire ONE professional graphics desiger? No? One more thing is the goal. Commercial software is made to make profit, and to achieve this goal it needs to solve some real problem that customers have and be better for customers than competitors. Software that has been made -for fun- or as a tool to control market doesn't have real customer's needs in mind. Only ego of the developer. That's why zero-cost software often has absolutely ridiculous desicions in usability. Next. Commercial software is made with it's economics in mind. You can not just waste your resources because it literally costs you money. But when you make something -for fun- or to show off, you don't care. Or even worse, you intentionally chose the hardest path just to prove something. That's why everything related to Linux exists in multiple incompatible incarnations. And all of them are flawed. What a waste of time and energy.
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Making software is expensive. Making good software is even more expensive. Why would anyone invest money into making any unique software just to give it away for free? Unless it is made as a tool specifically to control markets and kill competitors like how Google uses Chromium. And to make anything really important with high quality you need to hire not just software engineers, but highly qualified experts in very narrow domains. Their time costs even more. To get something in capitalism you need to give something in exchange. Why do you think everything related to Linux is looking so incredibly ugly? Couldn't they hire ONE professional graphics desiger? No? One more thing is the goal. Commercial software is made to make profit, and to achieve this goal it needs to solve some real problem that customers have and be better for customers than competitors. Software that has been made -for fun- or as a tool to control market doesn't have real customer's needs in mind. Only ego of the developer. That's why zero-cost software often has absolutely ridiculous desicions in usability. Next. Commercial software is made with it's economics in mind. You can not just waste your resources because it literally costs you money. But when you make something -for fun- or to show off, you don't care. Or even worse, you intentionally chose the hardest path just to prove something. That's why everything related to Linux exists in multiple incompatible incarnations. And all of them are flawed. What a waste of time and energy.
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Kwyjibo
It's fine to have an appreciation or preference for free and open source software. It's not fair to hold contempt for paid software though. People worked hard on that and they deserve to be paid for their product and ongoing support. You can state an opinion without insulting the product of someone's labor. Maybe if you were a software developer you'd have a real appreciation for the hard work that goes into a lot of this paid software. The notion that some people create free software, therefore any paid software is garbage is just asinine. Imagine telling someone who spent 4 years creating a video game that their game is garbage because they charge for it and don't release the source code for everyone else to use. If you think that's acceptable, then you probably need to get out of your bubble.
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It's fine to have an appreciation or preference for free and open source software. It's not fair to hold contempt for paid software though. People worked hard on that and they deserve to be paid for their product and ongoing support. You can state an opinion without insulting the product of someone's labor. Maybe if you were a software developer you'd have a real appreciation for the hard work that goes into a lot of this paid software. The notion that some people create free software, therefore any paid software is garbage is just asinine. Imagine telling someone who spent 4 years creating a video game that their game is garbage because they charge for it and don't release the source code for everyone else to use. If you think that's acceptable, then you probably need to get out of your bubble.
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Benny
The only thing there is completely unsolved in Linux is DAW, there is nothing that is even close to the big DAWs (PT, Cubase, Lofic, Studio One,...), I don't see anyone working on an alternative (or even better a Linux implementation) of ASIO, 99% of professional audio interfaces have no drivers (and even If you get them to work it has too much latency to be useful for production). That's why my strongest machine (the studio machine) is running windows, my day to day machine and work laptop are both Linux (after I returned the mac I got at the beginning, because IMO apple got the worse of both worlds). So as usual in Linux the problem is actually hardware not software. If the community could solve the HW issues, the DAW companies (at least some), could release for Linux as well.
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The only thing there is completely unsolved in Linux is DAW, there is nothing that is even close to the big DAWs (PT, Cubase, Lofic, Studio One,...), I don't see anyone working on an alternative (or even better a Linux implementation) of ASIO, 99% of professional audio interfaces have no drivers (and even If you get them to work it has too much latency to be useful for production). That's why my strongest machine (the studio machine) is running windows, my day to day machine and work laptop are both Linux (after I returned the mac I got at the beginning, because IMO apple got the worse of both worlds). So as usual in Linux the problem is actually hardware not software. If the community could solve the HW issues, the DAW companies (at least some), could release for Linux as well.
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igor
12:00
blender dominates what?
most hollywood movies still use maya or max, it has nothing to do with the tech of blender not being good enough, the issue is that most of their employees were trained to use those softwares, and they wont migrate over night.
sometimes, blender lack some feature, or isnt the best to do an specific task, and in big companies, they use a lot of tools, each employee use the best tools for an specific task, so an general purpose tool like blender, that is a jack of all trades, master of nothing is useless for then.
blender may have more users than max and maya and be used by a lot of big studios, but it still is not -industry standard-.
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12:00
blender dominates what?
most hollywood movies still use maya or max, it has nothing to do with the tech of blender not being good enough, the issue is that most of their employees were trained to use those softwares, and they wont migrate over night.
sometimes, blender lack some feature, or isnt the best to do an specific task, and in big companies, they use a lot of tools, each employee use the best tools for an specific task, so an general purpose tool like blender, that is a jack of all trades, master of nothing is useless for then.
blender may have more users than max and maya and be used by a lot of big studios, but it still is not -industry standard-.
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igor
15:17
its not so easy to -switch-, some softwares take years to master, that is like saying some one to start learning how to draw... again, from scratch with their left-handed.
we cant blame people for -being lazy- they already work hard enough to improve their skills and to work everyday, they get burnout all the time, then we demand that they -stop being lazy- and relearn everything from scratch?
do you really think that c and c++ are the best programing languages ever relased and that is the reason why so many projects use then? no, programmers are just -too lazy to port- their code to something else, that include floss programmers.
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15:17
its not so easy to -switch-, some softwares take years to master, that is like saying some one to start learning how to draw... again, from scratch with their left-handed.
we cant blame people for -being lazy- they already work hard enough to improve their skills and to work everyday, they get burnout all the time, then we demand that they -stop being lazy- and relearn everything from scratch?
do you really think that c and c++ are the best programing languages ever relased and that is the reason why so many projects use then? no, programmers are just -too lazy to port- their code to something else, that include floss programmers.
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Daniel
The thing about proprietary vs free and open source is that proprietary software is just dead code. I mean dead as in, it-s inevitable that it-s going to die. The lengths a person has to go to revive that code is near next to impossible. But with FOSS, it might die, it might not. It could live on as a fork, under a different name. Problem is that, at least today, proprietary software is really starting to annoy people into subscriptions that it-s near impossible to get out of. The nice thing is that people are starting to wake up. I know people who left MS Office for LibreOffice.
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The thing about proprietary vs free and open source is that proprietary software is just dead code. I mean dead as in, it-s inevitable that it-s going to die. The lengths a person has to go to revive that code is near next to impossible. But with FOSS, it might die, it might not. It could live on as a fork, under a different name. Problem is that, at least today, proprietary software is really starting to annoy people into subscriptions that it-s near impossible to get out of. The nice thing is that people are starting to wake up. I know people who left MS Office for LibreOffice.
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Shawn
It's not just users, it's also governments and large corporations. Why do they all prefer proprietary software? BECAUSE SOMEONE IS ACCOUNTABLE TO FIX BUGS. Open-source software makes it easier for people to identify the root cause of a bug, but if you _pay_ for software (whether it's open-source or not), then someone is actually _required_ to fix the bug if they want to keep earning a paycheck. Whereas with free software, bugs only get fixed if someone feels like it. That's why the most reliable Linux distros are the ones with corporate sponsors.
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It's not just users, it's also governments and large corporations. Why do they all prefer proprietary software? BECAUSE SOMEONE IS ACCOUNTABLE TO FIX BUGS. Open-source software makes it easier for people to identify the root cause of a bug, but if you _pay_ for software (whether it's open-source or not), then someone is actually _required_ to fix the bug if they want to keep earning a paycheck. Whereas with free software, bugs only get fixed if someone feels like it. That's why the most reliable Linux distros are the ones with corporate sponsors.
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ABH
I tried finding a good FOSS PDF reader for android. No luck.
They seem to all have philosophy of -Annotation is for botches-.
Do you want to print a pdf from your phone, convert to EPUB,
read in musicians mode, dark mode? You can. Do you want to
annotate (something 90% of users would want to do)? Tough luck.
The only one able to do so is -Mu PDF- and its interface is ancient
and options are....none....it looks like it would be dope on PC but
isnt really for android. What do I do in this situation?
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I tried finding a good FOSS PDF reader for android. No luck.
They seem to all have philosophy of -Annotation is for botches-.
Do you want to print a pdf from your phone, convert to EPUB,
read in musicians mode, dark mode? You can. Do you want to
annotate (something 90% of users would want to do)? Tough luck.
The only one able to do so is -Mu PDF- and its interface is ancient
and options are....none....it looks like it would be dope on PC but
isnt really for android. What do I do in this situation?
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enigmaster84
I was about to give to a primary school kid a RPi400 to use for school, but having found out that his school uses Zoom should they recur to distant education and that Zoom currently doesn't work on RPiOS made me change my mind in favour of a normal PC. A used, bit old one but with 64bit architecture.
It's a shame as I feel thar he would have loved a RPi400 much more than a common PC, but asking a school or its teachers to switch to another program seems too much to me. So thank you, Zoom -
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I was about to give to a primary school kid a RPi400 to use for school, but having found out that his school uses Zoom should they recur to distant education and that Zoom currently doesn't work on RPiOS made me change my mind in favour of a normal PC. A used, bit old one but with 64bit architecture.
It's a shame as I feel thar he would have loved a RPi400 much more than a common PC, but asking a school or its teachers to switch to another program seems too much to me. So thank you, Zoom -
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Terry
I love Linux and have been using it for years on my home computers. For many, many tasks, free and open source software is as good or better than proprietary software. Everything I need for home computing is available as free and open source. But, especially in the field I work, free and open source software is lacking. So, I use Windows for work and Linux for home. As a side note, I use Outlook on my work computer and Evolution on my home computer. I hate to say it, but I like Outlook better.
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I love Linux and have been using it for years on my home computers. For many, many tasks, free and open source software is as good or better than proprietary software. Everything I need for home computing is available as free and open source. But, especially in the field I work, free and open source software is lacking. So, I use Windows for work and Linux for home. As a side note, I use Outlook on my work computer and Evolution on my home computer. I hate to say it, but I like Outlook better.
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