Yeah, you don’t pay for software, you pay for support that won’t insult you. Seeking support for FOSS stuff is like running a gauntlet of people who insist you’re too stupid to use it.

If we want normies to use FOSS, the community needs to stop saying normies don’t deserve FOSS.

Nope, it’s gatekeeping. I installed Ubuntu on my partner’s machine instead of paying for windows, because he only uses webapps. Learning CLI isn’t required for browsing the web, and trying to force it only makes people think it’s useless for basic shit.

Why do people need to learn CLI to watch youtube and write emails? That’s all the average computer user does.

Hey, gimp is a nice open source image editor, don’t insult it by comparing it to this guy