• Lemmylemmylemmy@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    There are free private, and generally better-working versions of almost every software program. Including, operating systems, social media, email, telephone, etc

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      11 months ago

      Blender 3D, Krita, and Gimp have been the pillars of my creative life. And since last year November I’ve been running Linux.

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        11 months ago

        yeah but gimp is kind of… not great. I’m not sure how I managed to use it as a teenager 20 years ago lol.

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        11 months ago

        In a software ecosystem where almost every program or site you interact with expects some form of steady cash flow in a combination of subscription paywalls, pervasive surveillance, and intrusive ubiquitous ads then I think it does.

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      11 months ago

      generally better-working

      Generally? I know there’s a lot of FOSS fanboys here and I am a FOSS fan myself, but let’s not be fanatic and kid ourselves - I wouldn’t say FOSS software is “generally” better working. There are perhaps a few cases where the FOSS version is better, but that’s more the exception than the rule.