> On the desktop 90% of the projects are second rate clones of commercial software with a weird GUI, poorer features, and added user hostility.
A lot of free/open-source software is created by a single developer in their spare time, because they want an open & functional version of their favourite commercial app.
The weird GUI is what you get when you can't devote unlimited man-hours and millions of $ to the project.
A lot of good has come from the Linux and open-source movement, let's not pretend otherwise.
It isn't, just like opposite of free software is not great UI. Despite that, free software and terrible UI gets conflated; so what's just one more conflation, right?
"Despite that, free software and terrible UI gets conflated"
I wonder why people would conflate those two things? Sure, not all free desktop software is bad, but enough of it is that people prefer the commercial alternatives.
A lot of free/open-source software is created by a single developer in their spare time, because they want an open & functional version of their favourite commercial app.
The weird GUI is what you get when you can't devote unlimited man-hours and millions of $ to the project.
A lot of good has come from the Linux and open-source movement, let's not pretend otherwise.