There will still be just as many free as in beer linux apps and they will be just as easy to find since you can just turn on the filter for “free and open source” when your searching for an app in flathub or whatever repo and package manager you use, sure more proprietary apps may be developed but the open source ones will be here to stay and could get much more funding from donations if more people joined.
And I don’t think it’s about hardware development as that is already here, there are plenty options for hardware on linux and that is not a limiting factor.
What is a limiting factor (at least for me) is software support and it is the reason I still dual boot windows and linux. I need adobe for my work I know, I hate it too I wish I could use davinci resolve and other alternatives instead but I can’t.
I am also a gamer and I play with my friends who run windows, I want to have fun with my friends and if a game doesn’t run on linux I still want to play the game even if it means using windows.
If the market share of linux increases then for profit developers will start optimizing applications for it since it will become a major target demographic.
In terms of viruses and regulation they are both fare points which I agree with you on, but I don’t think they outweigh the benifets of having higher user adoption (for me at least)
I would be interested to know, is software support is ever a boundary to you?
There will still be just as many free as in beer linux apps and they will be just as easy to find since you can just turn on the filter for “free and open source” when your searching for an app in flathub or whatever repo and package manager you use, sure more proprietary apps may be developed but the open source ones will be here to stay and could get much more funding from donations if more people joined.
And I don’t think it’s about hardware development as that is already here, there are plenty options for hardware on linux and that is not a limiting factor.
What is a limiting factor (at least for me) is software support and it is the reason I still dual boot windows and linux. I need adobe for my work I know, I hate it too I wish I could use davinci resolve and other alternatives instead but I can’t. I am also a gamer and I play with my friends who run windows, I want to have fun with my friends and if a game doesn’t run on linux I still want to play the game even if it means using windows.
If the market share of linux increases then for profit developers will start optimizing applications for it since it will become a major target demographic.
In terms of viruses and regulation they are both fare points which I agree with you on, but I don’t think they outweigh the benifets of having higher user adoption (for me at least)
I would be interested to know, is software support is ever a boundary to you?