Free software for everyone

I want everyone to put a rope round the politicians necks and to fix the shit hole I live in but you don't see me pretending I can make it happen.

You're not anonymous, you never will be anonymous and you never have been anonymous. It doesn't matter what you do or how you do it there is always a paper trail, always. Welcome to reality cunt.

Some Software could do with being more user friendly because it's GUI is designed by the coder more often than not. I do a lot of testing for these kind of things and my first comment is usually "Where's the help section/tool tips?" People assume you know what they know, so you open a program and everything is laid out how they like it and know how to work it. If I'm not them I don't know what the icons mean, I need to play around them them to find what I want or I need to look up online tutorials when I may not have internet access. Simple tool tips aren't difficult to implement but go a long way to improving newbie experiences.

This sort of shit is near universal. It's a flaw in the OSS model and it won't ever be fixed. It's just one of the sacrifices you make to use it.

Universal driver system sounds like a good way to stagnate hardware. If you have to fit this same tiny mold what happens when you need something beyond it's scope?

It's about pride, really. Except for some really specific examples of artistic software, the general idea is that, in order to improve the usability of software, you need to listen to the UX guys. UX guys are generally artists and not engineers, like the people actually coding the program, and thus are usually looked down upon, because artistic fields are a meme. The main dofference is Microsoft and Apple actually put their engineers on a leash, and forced them to submit to their UX overlords, so while some things in their stuff may not make much sense from a programmer perspective, it does from a user one. Programmers are only good at interfacing with other programmers, and sometimes not even that, so that's why libre libraries have good API, while libre GUI suck.

Yeah M$ and Apple offer great experiences. Clearly the "artists" lmao who run those corporations are doing a great job.

t. 2% market share

Because freedoms only makes sense for people understanding its value. If the niggercattle can't trade their eye candy and gaymes for freedom, they simply don't deserve it.

And that, in turn, means the niggercattle get mad that you're still free and they come after your freedoms, much like they are right now.

You best get to work.

When you say "free software," you mean GNU and C software. This software sucks for two main reasons: lack of design and using C or C++. These are not free software problems, but UNIX software problems. Proprietary UNIX like System V had all these same problems, and it sucked even more because they couldn't find enough users to fix their software for free. There is some free software out there that doesn't follow the UNIX "design" philosophy, so it doesn't suck.

High quality projects like Multics, PL/I, Ada, and Lisp machines had a whole list of requirements before they started on the design.
multicians.org/fjcc1.html
adahome.com/History/Steelman/steelman.htm

UNIX software isn't made this way. UNIX is based on the "philosophy" of pushing the problems onto the user. UNIX weenies produce shit software that's full of bugs and doesn't work and get the users to fix it. Unlike quality software where the value is derived from the design and implementation and inherent to the software itself, the value of UNIX is derived from the user's programs and by making programs hard to port from UNIX to another OS unless it's a UNIX clone, exactly like JavaScript. The value of JavaScript isn't because it's a good language, but only because it runs on the browser and websites use it.

C and C++ require much more work and have more bugs. These people have no time to work on "pre-compiled icons and customizations that actually looks good" or "GUIs for advanced anonymization software" when they have buffer overflows, segfaults, memory leaks, null-terminated strings, array decay, broken preprocessors, autoconfs, makefiles, and panics to deal with. With a more productive language, they could get those problems out of the way and have time to work on making it more usable.

BTW, The very concept of providing a "free" version of U*** (so that, presumably, all the more people may choke on their own emeses) is SO utterly antisocial and disgusting that FSF is just about up there with the National Security Council, the Carnegie Fdn. for the Advancement of Teaching, the Trilateral Commission, and . The price of U*** should be very high indeed...This has indeed puzzled me about FSF. Here is anorganization with incredibly lofty (IMHO misguided, butlofty) political ideals, and apparently no technological orengineering ideals whatsoever. It's as if there were a shite cartel charging high prices forshite, and a counter-culture grassroots movement agitatingthat shite should be free.For those who want shite, I guess it matters.

What's "good enough" for you may not be "good enough" for the other Joes out there.
I can use a Libreboot laptop for little things like running old games, browsing, talking to friends, and reading stuff. I don't care enough to upgrade at this point to something more powerful, because there isn't a portable solution that is 100% Free Software capable yet.
Coreboot doesn't count.

100% marketing and sales to thank for that.