The more FOSS I use the better.

Been using Kdenlive for the past month or 2 and it’s been the best video editor I ever used! Better than divinci, Final Cut, cyber power, Sony, etc.

For most things I default towards free and open source software. If that doesn’t work, then I will look for a proprietary solution. There’s only a few areas where this is relevant.

I use Chrome browser for work. I have Steam, which is fantastic but is absolutely proprietary. Not much outside of that.

Non-free firmware. Non-free games/Steam. That’s basically it. My phone is almost fully free, even, and I love the feeling.

Fir the sake of this post I am including non-free but open sourced programs, even though Free and Open Source are different things.

Home and personal is 100 percent FOSS and always will be. Work still uses proprietary, but wherever possible I use my laptop instead.

Generally yes, but it depends. For example, there are no FOSS games that are anywhere near the AAA games from 15 years ago, let alone today. But things like browser? FOSS all the way.

At work I use windows and google workplace. In my personal life it’s 100% FOSS.

You have two choices.

You can work with FOSS software that is sometimes clunky, but will improve over time.

OR

You can work with proprietary software that is openly hostile and will only get worse over time.

100%. I try to use open source wherever possible. If it does have to be closed/proprietary, I will only use software I can own, no subscriptions; and the only if I can get them working in Linux (wine has come SO far).

That said, I do still have a windows partition but only for job related stuff.

Yes, very much so. Everyday; I run a linux system and the majority of the apps on my phone are from f-droid.

I’ve been daily driving linux for at least 10 years and I think I’m using close to 100% FOSS. Except for the stupid nvidia drivers and my steam games.

We’re really asking this question on Lemmy? What kind of answers do you expect to get here?

I prefer that it is easy to use, and that it is stable. I don’t care if it’s open source or closed source. I’ll pay either way. Tips or donations or just straight pay for it.

a side note for those that do free open source and want donations or tips, … make it easy to donate. I ran into one piece of software that said please donate. I spent 20 minutes trying to figure out how. I gave up. And just use the software for free.

I prefer FOSS because it often focuses on creating something good instead of something that focuses on extracting as much money possible

Hmm, tough call. Generally speaking I guess I’d prefer freedom over eternally paying rent to the tech oligarchs but then I’d miss out on the benefits of Microsoft’s latest adjustments to the Windows 11 start menu.

Exclusively Linux desktop since 2003

Rebooted a total of 3 times

(Ok second one is hyperbole)