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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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[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've been exclusively on open source since at least 22 years now, but the one thing I always use to lure people to Linux is the bling, then they stay for the awesomeness.

KDE used to have awesome bling which I regularly used for that but lately they've been taking more and more of it away. Now event the 3D desktop is gone and it's mostly just a normal desktop, not really something to lure people with, unfortunately

[–] argv_minus_one@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

KDE has neat stuff, but Compiz was the king of bling.

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago

Yeah, but compiz has a tiny part of what KDE does

[–] 1993_toyota_camry@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

lol yeah, I remember installing Beryl on my laptop to show off the wild desktop effects at university.

got a lot of attention, but not many people interested in linux in the long ron