• Littux@lemmy.world
    2·
    2 days ago

    Reddit experience: 3 ads for reading 5 comments

    And now, Reddit is down (HTTP ERROR 500)

  • Luke@lemmy.mlEnglish
    2·
    3 days ago

    I’ve been thinking about this often lately as well. These fucking corporations with multiple billions at their disposal, and all they can produce is shit like Windows or macOS? AND it also costs money to use? AND it has ads in it?

    Meanwhile a bunch of nerds working for free on a passion project are giving away software that is faster and easier to use and often more beautiful to look at.

    I guess I’ve simply reiterated what the post image said, so ignore me maybe, but fuck this is depressing and disappointing. All these corporate resources and all they can do is barely achieve what other people do for free in their spare time? What a fucking waste of human life and energy is capitalism.

    • Takumidesh@lemmy.world
      1·
      3 days ago

      For real open source projects, it’s a lot of the time not nerds working for free.

      All your favorite frameworks and libraries are often developed in house at big companies (angular, react, vue, tensorflow, Kafka, pytorch, k8s, Jenkins, and many many more).

      And even then, much of the development on them is done by people who are getting paid to use the frameworks at smaller companies.

      There are tons of examples the other way too of course, but even the Linux kernel is mostly corporate commits, Google, Huawei, Oracle, and others.

      This isn’t inherently bad, but it’s not as cut and dry as people make it out to be.

      I want to add, that language development is also often done by companies. Today for example is a Mozilla thing, and while a non profit, the devs aren’t working for free.

  • Zagorath@aussie.zoneEnglish
    1·
    3 days ago

    Sometimes slightly worse. Like LibreOffice.

    Sometimes actually better, like VLC.

    Sometimes about the same, like the latest version of MuseScore (older versions were, in fact, quite a bit worse).

    But sometimes, like with older versions of GIMP (I’ll admit, I’ve not tried its latest major version release candidate) it’s significantly worse.

    • IninewCrow@lemmy.caEnglish
      1·
      3 days ago

      Libreoffice is slightly worse because all the proprietary office suites keep lowering the bar for everyone to follow them. It’s not a quality issue, it’s a never ending contest to figure out how to complicate writing a simple letter so that everyone has to buy only your software.

      • Baku@aussie.zoneEnglish
        1·
        2 days ago

        I actually find MS Word really clunky, laggy, buggy, and generally intuitive. LO I only find to be clunky

  • TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world
    1·
    3 days ago

    Slightly worse? I can actually sort and the video player actually works, instead of whatever the FUCK was going on with the other place, for literally ever.