From my experience, most FOSS software is very user friendly user-centric / user-focused, while proprietary stuff is shit. What is the most notable exception to this rule that comes to your mind?

Edit: With user friendliness, I don’t mean UI design, but things like how the software is handling user privacy, whether it sees its users as users or as money-making cattle, how it handles user feedback, compatibility with other software the user uses (vs. vendor lock-in), configurability, and similar issues.

Edit2: I was made aware that user friendliness is a defined term: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Userfriendliness

  • Classy@sh.itjust.works
    224·
    2 days ago

    What a biased question haha

    OP, please download some FOSS software and tell me how friendly it is to use. As an arch (btw) user who primarily uses FOSS, they’re definitely not generally better than proprietary.

    • psychOdelic@discuss.tchncs.de
      4·
      1 day ago

      well, I am not that tech savvy and have a lot less trouble using FOSS as compared to the proprietary counterparts. if some application is too difficult for me to set up, I just give up & forget about it. But if I HAVE to use a proprietary software (like for school) I will lose my shit and get so angry i can’t be talked to for 2 hours, because in my experience proprietary stuff ALWAYS has so much shit in it and is so tedious to set up, and also complaining about my old hardware.

    • Speiser0@feddit.orgOP
      53·
      1 day ago

      I also use arch, btw, so yes I’m probably biased in a similar way as you.

      Most FOSS software I downloaded is very friendly to me, thanks. Or do you have a particular unfriendly FOSS software in mind?

      Btw, out of interest, if the software you use is so unfriendly to you, why do you use it? Money reasons?