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

    • Hellfire103@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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      10 months ago

      Mint was my first distro, too. Some videos from ExplainingComputers and Switched To Linux (before he was a bigot) got me interested in the distro, and then my uncle gave me an old ThinkPad and a DVD of Linux Mint 19.2 “Tessa”.

      After that, I installed Linux on all of my computers. I switched to Debian, then Fedora, then distrohopped for a bit before landing on my current configuration:

      • Garnet: openSUSE Tumbleweed with KDE Plasma
      • Amethyst: Arch Linux with Sway (possibly soon to be Void with Qtile)
      • Pearl: crunchbang++ 12 (32-bit) with Openbox
      • LapisLazuli: Fedora 38 with MATE
    • plactagonic@beehaw.org
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      10 months ago

      Mint was my first distro. My interest begun with LibreOffice, then W10 got unusable for me and rest is history.

      I distrohopped a year ago but returned to Mint