Comments by "Anony Mousse" (@anon_y_mousse) on "Leaving Windows For Linux...But What About Software Availability?" video.

@JohnnyN-I Personally, unless you had more experience than your average user I would never recommend dual booting. A second computer bought on the cheap is actually the best way to get started with Linux, especially now. Buy a Raspberry Pi kit or some other SBC and use that, or a used computer as Terry suggests would likely be cheaper, learn the ropes, because dual booting has bitten many a newbie in the ass.
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@AlucardNoir The sad thing is, most software that runs exclusively on Windows could be ported with ease, even really huge and complex programs that use lots of Win32 API functions. It's true that they don't see money or utility in porting to Linux, as @ErazerPT says, but that's mostly because they actually are evil. Adobe has contracts to fulfill and if they were more portable they'd not only violate contracts with the big OS vendors. They'd also invalidate all of their bullshit excuses over the past 30 years and would definitely cause a mass exodus, not just from Windows and Mac, but from Adobe as well. There's really nothing special about most software that people use, just tiny little quibbles that they can't see past to use alternatives. It took a lot of getting use to not having Visual Studio when I first switched to Linux, but Vim and a decent config for it makes the experience nearly the same. Although, I will admit that as this was 20+ years ago, as that may flavor someone's view on it.
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@AlucardNoir I'm not saying there is an alternative. What I am saying is that they're evil. File formats should be open and no one should be prevented or even slightly hindered in making an alternative, yet they put up every roadblock they can.
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@AlucardNoir That's a weird argument considering that Microsoft uses undocumented extensions and LibreOffice's native format is ODF and not OOXML. They may be similar in format, but they're not the same. I will admit that a fancy eraser that works better than the competition would make it harder to give up a tool, but hours of extra work? I find that difficult to believe and wonder if you need to find a better method for dealing with it.
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@AlucardNoir In truth, I didn't know Adobe Illustrator was for vector graphics. The only Adobe product I've used other than Reader was Photoshop and I have no clue, nor do I care what the rest do. I just know that people like to suck Adobe off for supposedly doing things better. Never mind if an alternative gives 90% of the functionality, just keep sucking off Adobe for that 10% that isn't worth the price and I 100% doubt that Adobe will save you time for shit unless you just don't know how to use the alternatives at all. As for Office suites, yeah, sure, let's quibble that the not as open as advertised format that Microsoft uses isn't fully supported when they don't document features, and let's quibble that not quite free alternatives that have more money to throw at the problem have figured out how to handle every single eccentricity. It's irrelevant towards my argument and actually kind of supports it, but at this point I'm pretty much done with this whole argument because it seems like you're willing to excuse evil behavior from corporations that want you as a slave and not willing to cut even half of that slack for open source projects that do it for free.
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@toby9999 I don't think you know what a strawman argument is if you think that is one. However, for the sake of argument, let's assume that open source projects only approach 30% of the functionality of closed source projects, which is a complete BS argument because they're much better than that, but in that event you also have the option of using WINE. If you want to argue that the base functionality of the OS is inferior to Windows, then I'll know you're arguing in bad faith because only a zombie could believe that. And yes, their behavior is in fact evil because they could still make profit without screwing over customers. Their behavior is that of a parasite, squeezing as much blood from you as they can. All of that said, I'd still argue that open source is superior because I don't believe for one second that the functionality equivalency is anywhere near that imbalanced and if it's as close as I'm estimating then the reason OSS wins is because you can modify the code to add features yourself. Since you bring up MSVS, I'm going to assume you're a programmer, and that means you could do so too, assuming yet again competency.
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@AsmrFuns1 Sure there is. Intentionally harming others without just cause is evil. Helping others when it brings you no benefit is good. You can argue that anything which doesn't fit either of those two categories is neutral, and I'd agree with that, but there most definitely is good and evil.
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@AsmrFuns1 Do you seriously think that someone murdering someone else isn't evil?
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@AsmrFuns1 I've already said I don't support evil, so why would I support either socialism or anarcho-capitalism? Property rights only applies to physical property. What you're actually trying to argue for is intellectual property. The problem with our IP laws, in nearly every country, is that it directly goes against capitalism because it hinders competition. That is evil. Copyright and patent laws are socialism, but they can at least be accepted if they have limits, but even the 17 year limit of patents is too much. Business, and specifically technology in business, move far too fast for a term of 17 years to be acceptable. I would argue for our copyrights being limited to 15 years and patents to 5, but I don't make the laws. It sounds like you don't actually know what socialism is, which is why you support it unwittingly.
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Yep, Microsoft has certainly embraced Linux, and they've even started extending it, too. All that's left is for them to extinguish it, which isn't possible, and they'll try anyway.
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That's definitely a great way to get into it. Engulf yourself in the ecosystem of apps that run on both so that when you switch it'll hardly change your workflow.
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@AsmrFuns1 Capitalism requires competition. Copyright and patent law are government enforced prevention of competition. If I could manufacture a product better than you but aren't allowed to because of a patent, how is that competitive? If I could write the story better by changing up a few characters, rearranging chapters and so on, but aren't allowed to because of copyright, how is that competitive? If you don't understand the concept by now, you probably never will.
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