Yeah,man. Can you believe those carpenters that still want to buy hammers from big tool? Our federation of unemployed navel gazers has built at least three hammer replacements that consist of a rock attached to a thick stick with Elmer’s glue, but they just wanna throw their money at the big tool companies. I even told them that our next iteration will have one side of the rock flattened for better hammering, but they keep going on about “ergonomics”, and “effectiveness”.
I swear, I think all the open source people see software as toys and only as toys. For those of us who actually use it to do things, it’s a tool, and it needs to work like the tools I’ve been using at work for more decades than I want to own up to.
Bro OSS runs the fucking world. You are using stacks and fucking stacks of itright now. It is the backbone of literally fucking everything. It is in some respects the most serious software that has ever been produced. Your delusional codependence on an abusive monopoly is just that.
OSS office productivity tools still suck out loud, and the OSS nerds should stick to making widgets that make networking work better and keep their noses out of a domain they clearly don’t understand. Because open source office and graphic design software sucks out loud, and always has.
Get snooty with people who want to criticize OSS compilers, networking, and development tools all you want. But don’t try to push GIMP as an equivalent to Photoshop or the ridiculous Open Office suite as being in the same class as Microsoft. Don’t get me wrong - I wish to fuck there were a worthwhile alternative, but the industry standards are industry standards for a reason, and the people who make OSS don’t spend enough time working as an admin grunt to have the faintest clue why their “alternatives” aren’t worth the time it takes to install them and then uninstall them when it takes 20 minutes to create a document template.
Dude, the open source tools only differ in the sense that you own the software and therefore are immune to enshittification, and that they are provided as is without direct customer support.
If you’re saying a particular “hammer” is missing a component that you relied on previously with what you purchased from “big tool”, there’s a suggestions box right there that costs you nothing and will be read by the maintainers. You’ll have to just be patient and try it out once it’s released (for free mind you).
Also, that hammer from “big tool” has an IED planted into the handle that will explode if you don’t swipe your credit card into it every month. Just saying.
They also differ in the sense that you have to completely relearn how to do everything you’ve been doing your whole career and usually in a way that is more complicated and less efficient.
It’s not missing components, it’s the fact that the most commonly used components are clunkier, less user friendly, and feel like an afterthought tacked on after someone made the software to prove they could.witbout ever talking to anyone who uses the software to do their job. If Open Office were as good a suite of office software as Microsoft, it’d be the industry standard. No business wants to pay Microsoft license fees just because, they do it because the tools work better and create a better end product.
If Open Office were as good a suite of office software as Microsoft, it’d be the industry standard. No business wants to pay Microsoft license fees just because, they do it because the tools work better and create a better end product.
The idea that everything that businesses do is as efficient as physically possible and the executives are all mega geniuses that are incapable of making bad decisions (or are even incentivized to make good decisions) is untrue.
COBAL is not the greatest programming language to ever be invented. It, and the various pieces of dogshit software that companies collectively shell out billions for every year, are used because they are entrenched in their respective industries and corporate structures, not because of their brilliant design.
The idea that everything that businesses do is as efficient as physically possible and the executives are all mega geniuses that are incapable of making bad decisions (or are even incentivized to make good decisions) is untrue.
I never said that was true. But I’ve sat through enough budget meetings to know for certain that if Open Office were even “good enough”, let alone “as good” it would be the corporate standard, because everyone hates paying for Office.
But it isn’t, for all the reasons I listed before.
Yeah,man. Can you believe those carpenters that still want to buy hammers from big tool? Our federation of unemployed navel gazers has built at least three hammer replacements that consist of a rock attached to a thick stick with Elmer’s glue, but they just wanna throw their money at the big tool companies. I even told them that our next iteration will have one side of the rock flattened for better hammering, but they keep going on about “ergonomics”, and “effectiveness”.
I swear, I think all the open source people see software as toys and only as toys. For those of us who actually use it to do things, it’s a tool, and it needs to work like the tools I’ve been using at work for more decades than I want to own up to.
You are hilariously misinformed about things lmao
Nah, you’re just delusional that your toy hammer is a good hammer.
Bro OSS runs the fucking world. You are using stacks and fucking stacks of it right now. It is the backbone of literally fucking everything. It is in some respects the most serious software that has ever been produced. Your delusional codependence on an abusive monopoly is just that.
Yes, I’m well aware.
OSS office productivity tools still suck out loud, and the OSS nerds should stick to making widgets that make networking work better and keep their noses out of a domain they clearly don’t understand. Because open source office and graphic design software sucks out loud, and always has.
Get snooty with people who want to criticize OSS compilers, networking, and development tools all you want. But don’t try to push GIMP as an equivalent to Photoshop or the ridiculous Open Office suite as being in the same class as Microsoft. Don’t get me wrong - I wish to fuck there were a worthwhile alternative, but the industry standards are industry standards for a reason, and the people who make OSS don’t spend enough time working as an admin grunt to have the faintest clue why their “alternatives” aren’t worth the time it takes to install them and then uninstall them when it takes 20 minutes to create a document template.
Dude, the open source tools only differ in the sense that you own the software and therefore are immune to enshittification, and that they are provided as is without direct customer support.
If you’re saying a particular “hammer” is missing a component that you relied on previously with what you purchased from “big tool”, there’s a suggestions box right there that costs you nothing and will be read by the maintainers. You’ll have to just be patient and try it out once it’s released (for free mind you).
Also, that hammer from “big tool” has an IED planted into the handle that will explode if you don’t swipe your credit card into it every month. Just saying.
They also differ in the sense that you have to completely relearn how to do everything you’ve been doing your whole career and usually in a way that is more complicated and less efficient.
It’s not missing components, it’s the fact that the most commonly used components are clunkier, less user friendly, and feel like an afterthought tacked on after someone made the software to prove they could.witbout ever talking to anyone who uses the software to do their job. If Open Office were as good a suite of office software as Microsoft, it’d be the industry standard. No business wants to pay Microsoft license fees just because, they do it because the tools work better and create a better end product.
The idea that everything that businesses do is as efficient as physically possible and the executives are all mega geniuses that are incapable of making bad decisions (or are even incentivized to make good decisions) is untrue.
COBAL is not the greatest programming language to ever be invented. It, and the various pieces of dogshit software that companies collectively shell out billions for every year, are used because they are entrenched in their respective industries and corporate structures, not because of their brilliant design.
I never said that was true. But I’ve sat through enough budget meetings to know for certain that if Open Office were even “good enough”, let alone “as good” it would be the corporate standard, because everyone hates paying for Office.
But it isn’t, for all the reasons I listed before.