I probably wouldn’t describe them as flawed, because the goal wasn’t and couldn’t ever be perfection, so then everything is flawed, but then is it really a flaw? It sounds like more of an issue of what’s useful in what type of situation.

Lots of options available. YT is slowly cracking down on them. That’s OK, just keep your medium run media consumption plans flexible.

The point is that the post title was false (or intentionally very misleading, if you insist on creatively parsing it). Accuracy in post titles is important.

The article itself proves you wrong on this one, my friend. The situation is less simple and more subtle than you’re claiming.

Of course ego is a factor. That’s true for every organization in the world. But there are many other highly relevant factors in play here.

I like it when the garbage identifies itself openly. We don’t need Chrome, but Chrome needs us.

Depending on your situation, you might consider a totally different setup. For example, you could install WordPress or anything vaguely similar to it.

Prosody claims to support Message Archive Management and HTTP file sharing, sounds like the feature you want, or at least it is close.

Nothing I wrote was condescending or shamed the person for asking what they asked. Unfortunately, people like you live in technical forums all across the internet. You make a snap judgment that an on-topic focused response is an attack when it’s not, and you decide to play the white knight. Meh.

Take care, my friend.

Sorry for trying to be helpful. Have a nice day.

Right but Photoshop has a horrible UI too. So maybe if you want similar features, you have to pay the price in time spent learning it.

Of course if you don’t need the features, great. Update your post with what you actually want to do.

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It really isn’t though. This is a pretty weak stereotype. I have so many friends that are counter examples. Hey it’s okay to make a meme if you want to have fun but if that’s how you feel then your friend group is small.

I’ve used both of them for many years and generally they’re both quite nice. For some reason kdenlive is my go-to, probably it has a few features that I use regularly, but I would recommend either of them.

I disagree with the premise, but even if it’s true that people stay with Windows because it sucks less, that’s still a success story for Linux. External comparative pressure leading to more end user freedom. Think of where it could go next!

Right, but is it just residual? This topic is interesting but mostly in a historical way now. Of course if you want drama, there’s always drama to be found.

Package managers like apt or rpmn(or whatever for your distro) are the standard way to install software. If there’s a good reason to avoid them, OK, but no good reason was stated here.

The big FOSS apps are tested by many paid and unpaid people. So I’m not sure that your QA instincts are serving you well.

The value of interoperability and protocols all depend on your situation. If you’re temporarily doing certain standalone tasks, maybe you don’t care. Just try to avoid reinventing the wheel.

I think transparency and collaboration is good for software quality in the medium run. You suggested the opposite, and in my observation that’s not true.

Yes, proprietary devs can copy the ideas, but nobody helps them find or fix bugs, or insist on interoperability or following protocols. So corners are cut, often reasonably, and then in a few years it’s full of cruft.

Isn’t that a type error? The examples given were for protocols, but your specific objection was about clients. There are many amazingly smooth clients for the aforementioned protocols. They may not be popular, you might not like them, but they definitely exist.

We should also briefly take note of the disastrous UI that Microsoft Office has.

You forgot the biggest most originalist one of all. Email.