"This kind of makes me rant about how a lot of people I see constantly refuse to learn how things work. I see friends that have cars and they break and they jus

"This kind of makes me rant about how a lot of people I see constantly refuse to learn how things work. I see friends that have cars and they break and they just take it to a mechanic and let the mechanic worry about knowing how it works" To me it sounds like you're making a really good case for OSS, particularly on the desktop. I recently took my first stab at patching a desktop application written in Qt that I use everyday (I'm a web dev) and it was extremely educational.