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Maybe that is what you value. I use software from free software ecosystem for the no bullshit, high quality software that it delivers. People like me would ben

• qb45 11y ago
  > I use software from free software ecosystem for the no bullshit, high quality software that it delivers. People like me would benefit from free software being more mainstream. It isn't obvious that you benefit from this, there certainly is a kind of "eternal september" effect which makes popular software worse. For example, in the good old days googling for Linux driver related issues yielded useful posts explaining what's going on and how to make things work, but when Ubuntu gained popularity the results suddenly became flooded with posts by clueless Ubuntu noobs trying package up/downgrades, alternative repositories etc without any understanding what they are doing and why. I think it's getting better now, mainly thanks to sites like stackoverflow, but few years there was no way to get usable results without "-ubuntu".