you missed the fact that Im not Talking about you or about the users that are very skilled. I use linux from the '90s and I never used one of the tools you are using. But im not a total newbie. So,think About how many categories of users can use linux without to have a good understanding about what they are doing. Can they understand what part of the source code does what ? open source code is not tailored for the majority of the linux users. The real advantage is for the skilled programmers. So,this also means that concepts like freedom and openess and security still sounds good,but they can be implemented by the majority. This also mean that ok a lot of users can use linux for free,but they have no access to the most opportunities in terms of earnings. Infact I suspect that only few skilled people can change the source code and commit the changes and only these persons earns a lot of money. An interesting idea could be to socialize the source code of linux with its applications. I mean,to create a method that hellp every person with medium intellectual abilities to understand what the souce code does to propose a bigger amount of changes. In this way linux and the tools can grow in quality and quantity.
Il ven 25 nov 2022, 00:16 David <curmudg...@telaman.net.au> ha scritto: > > > On Fri, Nov 25, 2022 at 00:01, Mario Marietto <marietto2...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > For most users it makes no real difference using closed or open source > code,because yes,they can look inside the code,but to understand what the > code does they need a master degree. So,for all these users,maybe it's a > better idea to use the closed source OS,at least they will be able to use > the OS in a more functional way. For sure someone else will work to find > the backdoors,but again : a newbie will not be able to understand if a > backdoor has been found or if their os is patched. They can only trust what > the programmers say. At this point a psychological attitude is needed to > gain the real advantage of the open source code : to believe in the good > faith of the "good" programmers,but ehy,even this can be hard for someone. > > > I use Debian, with LaTeX to supply templates for all my communication > needs, a good email programme in Geary which isn't any more than it needs > to be, a couple of browsers in Firefox and Falkon, and Gnumeric and > Calligra Words in case somebody who isn't au fait with the situation sends > me a Windows doc or Excel file. > In other words, I operate the OS in `a fully functional' way and haven't > needed any other OS since I switched when XP first came out, over two > decades ago. > I couldn't read a line of C to save myself. > Perhaps you are missing something? > Cheers! >
