Comment by theandrewbailey
1 day ago
I think trust has a lot to do with it. People might be annoyed about Microsoft pushing OneDrive, streaming service price hikes, or YouTube showing more ads, but they still largely trust Big Tech companies and brands enough to keep using them.
Or maybe they've tried software that was primarily marketed as open source, but because it didn't support some obscure thing, they believe that anything open source is useless.
Yes but something like signal or f-droid just works. I get it. Some open source might be inferior to others because of lack of donation etc. but that doesn't mean that we should basket all of open source because of it.
I think that we should expose more people to the idea of open source through something easier/practical like signal/f-droid/flatpak as I had mentioned in the comment.
Yes it was a little overwhelming in the start for me as well but its soo worth it imo. You feel comfortable with technology of sorts once you go all in, knowing you can always change things to your liking and you have the uttermost freedom, that is truly... liberating.
The true freedom in this day and age. I always appreciated the idea of freedom, the freedom of doing a job that you might like (financial freedom) etc..