real reasons why people DON’T use opensource:
- bugs in apps with no community on irc/discord/matrix/xmpp to ask about (yes, i talk about you @libreoffice )
- assholes in communities if such exist (yes i talk about archlinux and @godot )
- enshittification and slowly going back to not being opensource (yes i talk about @mozilla )
- and if all of the above combined it just creates resistance against opensource
small opensource can do nothing until big opensource does the step…
@jlow @hacknorris yeah, and lets touch on libreoffice, it has no community support? Huh? It has an active support community linked right on the main page at “ask libreoffice” that has an average turnaround on questions of around 15 minutes.
And unlike microsoft’s excel that seems more intent on stripping features and tying it to sharepoint than fixing 25+ year old reported bugs at least things work consistently and get fixed…(have to use it for work, the date bug still regularly bites me…)
@raptor85 @jlow for the now libreoffice is one of the most buggiest softwares and for now i feel the only support is their dead irc (YoU HaVe A PrObLeM? LeArN CoDiNg xD AnD FiX iT YoUrSeLf xD)
@hacknorris @jlow
use their support board,
https://ask.libreoffice.org/ , it’s the first link on their site, people there are extremely helpful.
If you run into a bug please, PLEASE report it, all the time I hear people complain about bugs that most of us have never run into and can’t replicate, people can’t fix what they don’t know is a problem.
https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/describecomponents.cgi?product=LibreOffice&format=guided