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A lot of open source sucks. Think about it. The model is a mirror of how government works. Either you only only solve specific bullet points instead of a holist
by nebula8804 3y ago
A lot of open source sucks. Think about it. The model is a mirror of how government works. Either you only only solve specific bullet points instead of a holistic solution(many open source apps being more convoluted to use vs closed source competitors) or you suffer from the "too many cooks" problem and you end up with a mess of a project (eg. Desktop Linux and all its problems)
- yummypaint 3y agoI don't think it's fair refer to "desktop linux" as a monolith. It's really lots of independent developers and teams offering a broad diversity of solutions to common compute problems. Having a pool of possible solutions means that some will innevitably be worse for a given use case, but this is a strength overall. The other side of the coin is that commercial software also sucks in general, but users of commercial software often have no choice in the matter and are being held hostage by vendor lock-in.