I don’t like helping non-tech people because they don’t want to learn. They just want it fixed. I understand the mindset and I’m that same way on other things. But I don’t want to be their “tech guy”.
I do like helping in the FOSS community though because people generally do want to learn.
Vivaldi is chromium based and not fully open source. It doesn’t deserve any more trust than chrome/edge/safari/etc.
This has been my experience as well with duckduckgo. I want to like it, and I do have it as my default search but I often end up searching Google after unsatisfactory results from duckduckgo.
Thanks for asking this question!
You know, I never really came across them, which is surprising in hindsight. And in looking them up, I feel like I missed out!
I came across Linux sometime in the late 90’s. It was free (as in pricetag, which is all I cared about at the time) and different so I was curious. The PC I was using wasn’t mine so repartitioning wasn’t an option but I found some ready to go boot from dos linux distro and gave it a go. And I loved it! And still do.
I used to host my own nextcloud instance. It takes a bit of effort to setup and requires some maintenance. As far as self hosting goes I would grade it as easy to do. So if you like a Dropbox style option and want to try it out, you should.
But honestly I’m here to steer you towards syncthing if you go the file sync + libreoffice (or whatever) path. Once I found out about it I switched, and am happy I did.
I can confirm, sort of. I’m not from there nor have I been to Brazil specifically but I’ve been to South American and Asian countries where it’s nearly as ubiquitous as using native calls and texting in the US.
Mutt is a console based client, so if you have to deal with a lot of html or image laden emails it can be a hassle. There’s options for these things, mind you. You can call a text based browser to produce fairly readable text output within the client, or use an external application (browser, image viewer, etc.) to view it. Or anything in between. Mutt is extremely customizable. Just something to be mindful of.
That being said, I’m also quite happily a mutt user 😊.
Commercial software: complete goals x, y, and z and get paid.
FOSS: Project of passion.
Short and black and white version: I’d rather use the software people are excited to make.
My take on what’s realistic: Things are rarely so simple. Commercial software will often (not always) be easier to use. I feel like most users don’t want to expend any more than minimal effort to effectively use their software (which I don’t think is unreasonable). So in those cases and for those users, easier = better.
Also, highly specialized commercial software might be better than any FOSS options. For example, there’s nothing in the FOSS world that can compete with the big players in commercial electronic medical records software.
So, while I love FOSS, and I find Capitalism problematic, sometimes commercial is better.
P.S: The response is more to the concept of the post. Your actual post is both well written and thought out and doesn’t feel at all like “black and white” thinking.