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What was your gateway product to open source? (www.cnet.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I want to talk about our gateway products to open source. You know, that one product or software that made us go, "Whoa, this is amazing!" and got us hooked on the world of open source.

What made you to jump ships? Was it the "free" side of things like qBittorrent? Did you even know that some of your programs are open source before you got into the topic?

For me those products were:

Android
Firefox
VLC
Calibre

Am thinking to order some merch and I wanna make it more accessible to people unfamilliar with open source culture. Now, am looking for fairly normalized but still underrepresented product -- maybe it could serve as a conversation starter and push some people to open source

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@graphito Red hat Linux back in 99. Ran X11 Gnome with Metacity, bash and emacs. Still using Linux today. But Im on Arch with zsh, kde/plasma Wayland and NeoVim. Probably the only thing that I still use now from '99 is less 😃

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Woah ... metacity brought back memories. Initially my reaction (comming from Sawfish/Sawmill) was "what? you mean I can't script my window manager with LISP?!?", but eventually its simplicity grew on me.