And it’s actually not slightly worse but better in every way.
Slightly worse in design, far better in consumer-friendliness!
OK who changed the wojak into a beautiful woman?
It was on Lemmy World’s All[0] less than 10 days ago.
Yeah, that’s where I pulled it from.
That art style is pretty off-putting tbh.
The naked woman is kinda odd too
She might be wearing a tube top. Need a wider angle to be sure.
wojak is a beautiful woman
Yay
Sometimes the open source equivalent is better. SmartTube is a much better app than the official YouTube app for Google TV / Android TV even though there’s just one developer working on it.
Similarly, pirate TV/movie apps often have a much better user experience than the legit ones. Compare Weyd, Syncler, or Stremio+Torrentio to the Amazon Prime video app for example.
In both cases, the people who work on them usually care about the user experience and use the app day-to-day themselves, rather than being told to do whatever makes the most money for the company.
They made the RTX version, so now I can see it in 4k, thank you developers!
But when the open source app becomes the best one, it becomes impossible to beat it. Look VLC for example.
Vlc is basically what it is because of ffmpeg and the likes, which are… Corporate supported :p
That said ffmpeg didnt start that way, but at one point it was and vlc quickly jumped into popularity because of it and it quickly supporting new formats ( like mkv back in 2003/2004 ).
Youre not wrong, but its more complex than that xDOr Blender
Depending on what you’re trying to create blender is very easily beat by other programs. Almost every time a friend watches me use blender I’ll get hit with “this would be so much easier in fusion 360”
There are a few examples where the foss version of the app became the best one. I am having trouble remembering others. But I think BitWarden is just as good as any paid password manager.
Reddit experience: 3 ads for reading 5 comments
And now, Reddit is down (HTTP ERROR 500)
Because you are the product, not the software that you use.
I think a lot of paid commercial software is significantly better than FLOSS
Name paid commercial software to replace grep
you dont replace perfection.
The fuck is this stupid ass meme format lol
My first thought as well
SEX
Now that I have your attention…
I’ve been thinking about this often lately as well. These fucking corporations with multiple billions at their disposal, and all they can produce is shit like Windows or macOS? AND it also costs money to use? AND it has ads in it?
Meanwhile a bunch of nerds working for free on a passion project are giving away software that is faster and easier to use and often more beautiful to look at.
I guess I’ve simply reiterated what the post image said, so ignore me maybe, but fuck this is depressing and disappointing. All these corporate resources and all they can do is barely achieve what other people do for free in their spare time? What a fucking waste of human life and energy is capitalism.
Technically, MacOS doesn’t cost money to use and has no ads.
You need to buy an Apple-branded computer to use it (at least legally). It’s price is just included in the device you buy.
Honestly, it’s such a compelling point to made for why capitalism is a shit economic system. Regardless of if someone is compelled by communist/anarchist economics, at the very least it should be obvious that capitalism produces only the most profitable products, not the best products.
For real open source projects, it’s a lot of the time not nerds working for free.
All your favorite frameworks and libraries are often developed in house at big companies (angular, react, vue, tensorflow, Kafka, pytorch, k8s, Jenkins, and many many more).
And even then, much of the development on them is done by people who are getting paid to use the frameworks at smaller companies.
There are tons of examples the other way too of course, but even the Linux kernel is mostly corporate commits, Google, Huawei, Oracle, and others.
This isn’t inherently bad, but it’s not as cut and dry as people make it out to be.
I want to add, that language development is also often done by companies. Today for example is a Mozilla thing, and while a non profit, the devs aren’t working for free.
Do you have any idea how many jira states our development workflow has?
I wonder how much appetite there is for project managers and scrum masters in the open source world.
What’s funny to me is, the agile approach seems like it’s a much better fit for open-source, non-commercial software development.
The corporate world and is management practices based around quarters and deadlines can’t seem to see how anything could get done without deadlines, but that’s usually less of a factor with open-source. People laugh at “scrum masters” because in a corporate environment, all the scrum stuff tends to be mostly performative. But it seems to me that open-source projects with multiple contributors already kind of work in an agile manner.
All-Star team
You’ve never worked on software in a big company have you?
That’s the point
I can only speak for myself, but I used to love to get home from work and contribute to free software projects I found interesting. Since I got a good paying tech job at a big company, the last thing I want to do is more of the same when I get home. (having kids around the same time probably had an influence too).
There are definitely a lot of brilliant engineers working at companies like Microsoft, Google, and Apple, they just get hamstrung by management.
the problem is that in the vast majority of cases, designers aren’t involved. it’s just code monkeys trying their best to implement functionality but without UI/UX design they are barely usable by the average person. I guess just by its nature open source is less of a concept in design so you don’t get many volunteers. also designers are probably more averse to doing work for free since every goddamn costumer tries to get them to work for free.
And then you have Blender, Krita, OBS, VLC, bitwarden & Let’s Encrypt.
But tons of corporate contribution to big open source projects so it is sometimes grey.
Open source is the free bicycle that will get you to the coffee shop. Priority software is the SUV you lease to do the same.
Enjoy being poor.
So open source is superior then, as it promotes fitness and climate friendlyness?
So this is why FOSS software is often faster, no traffic jams.
I like to tell people “have fun staying poor” when they don’t use open source money.
I’m willing to bet the poster isn’t aware just about every website they visit is built on an open source stack.
