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For many people that don't know or fear FLOSS your example, if not presented properly, will be used against FLOSS. I've heard it many times: "FLOSS is defective, developers want the users to fix it for them". </blockquote>
<div><br>And that is fine, bigots will be bigots, so what? What matters is the end result. <br><br>When was the last time that the Linux kernel paniced on you (other than for hardware problems)? When was the last time you rebooted a server other than for a kernel upgrade or hardware upgrade?<br>
<br># uptime<br> 04:47:10 up 566 days, 22:52, 1 user, load average: 0.10, 0.10, 0.07<br> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I am well aware of that difference. I used to have Fedora on my primary desktop, It was the distro with the must up to date versions and trying new things all the time. Of course things broke frequently. I spent time figuring out the problems, investigating and sometimes reporting or helping others, There I was a user/contributor even at a small scale.<br>
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I finally decided to switch to a different distro when I decide to have a more usable one. There I became the second kind of user. I want it to work with as little fuss as possible.<br></blockquote><div><br>Which is fine. For KDE, I am just a user. I want a functional desktop that I don't <br>
fiddle with. I want office software on it to do the regular things regular users do.<br>I am not even an advanced users when it comes to the desktop. I want an environment<br>that stays out of my way. I rarely tweak my desktop. I rarely file bugs, and even when<br>
I do, they normally get fixed the following release, not because I filed a patch. I don't even know the internals of KDE enough to study its source let alone understand it and file patches for it.<br><br>Those who have the ability and willingness do that, and enough of them are around to keep (most) projects healthy.<br>
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