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
I think I somewhat disagree on technical terms. I don’t think those two are opposites. That Free Software has been tailored to the demands of the user. It’s just that the user is the developer itself… While software that gets sold, is made to appease the customers. So I think it’s not an opposite, but ultimately the same. The software is made to solve some problem for someone. It’s just that the developer sits in front of their computer with a different target audience in mind.
Other than that, I agree. But another think to note, there are vast differences between projects. Some are really clunky. Some are shiny and polished MacOS clones. We have them all. And sometimes it’s just users complaining when the UI in fact has a concept… It’s just not the currently predominant design by the market leader, and people think it should be a clone of that and offer a similar experience…