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[-] rottingleaf@lemmy.zip 9 points 4 months ago

It's a question of both expenses and dependency on a monopolist.

There simply won't ever be an opportunity to move from MS solutions to FOSS solutions which won't have these problems.

Being dependent is possibly more expensive in the long term too.

[-] olutukko@lemmy.world 13 points 4 months ago

If you throw even half the money that would go to ms license for the foss community instead you can get some pretty huge improvements for that foss program. Blender for example, got actually nice looking and seriously good program while being foss because they got decent funding

[-] rottingleaf@lemmy.zip 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Well, people blamed old (archaic, what it had when it was an Amiga program) UI for being hard to use, but the new one is even harder, so dunno.

I touched Blender with the old UI somewhere in late 00s on Windows, managed to sculpt and render a few clumsy objects. I don't remember how long it took, but it feels as if the new one took twice that for the same.

EDIT: On the actual subject - yes, that too. I sometimes think that (moderate) positive inflation is not always better than deflation. It encourages a narrow way of thinking where we always stop at first local optimum. Say, MSO is cheaper right now than LO - then we choose MSO, period. Nobody thinks about finding a bigger optimum, because constant inflation psychologically encourages you to think that way. That's just clumsy philosophy.

[-] olutukko@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

I find the new much so much more easy and clear

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