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Only recommend free software, this way you minimize reputation drama
by tomcooks 7y ago
Only recommend free software, this way you minimize reputation drama
- criley2 7y agoGenerally speaking, free software UX is so bad that I would never recommend it to most people I talk to because 1) I don't want to train them on it 2) I don't want to support them on it 3) It isn't good enough for them to use without 1-2 So I pick the shiny costly commercial version that comes with training and support. I mean, I've done the recommend my parents and older coworkers use difficult OSS software thing in my past, and I honestly regret it. No one won.
- mmm_grayons 7y agoSadly, my experience has been the opposite, because open-source stuff usually takes more work to run and is seldom as polished, and users hate that. I rarely, if ever, recommend open-source anything for end-user use. Zoom did well because it had the least hassle of any solution, hands-down. I'm not saying it's impossible to subscribe to a hosted open-source service that's as good, but it doesn't exist yet.
- tomcooks 7y agohttps://meet.jit.si/roomname123 https://meet.jit.si/roomname123 where's the hassle? or the lack of shine? it works better than any other proprietary service