From my experience, most FOSS software is very user friendly user-centric / user-focused, while proprietary stuff is shit. What is the most notable exception to this rule that comes to your mind?

Edit: With user friendliness, I don’t mean UI design, but things like how the software is handling user privacy, whether it sees its users as users or as money-making cattle, how it handles user feedback, compatibility with other software the user uses (vs. vendor lock-in), configurability, and similar issues.

Edit2: I was made aware that user friendliness is a defined term: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Userfriendliness

  • talEnglish
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    2 days ago

    While I generally agree, I can think of some examples from the professionally-oriented software field where the commercial stuff fares well, like CAD. I am very out-of-date on Photoshop, but I’d guess that it’d probably also qualify – GIMP isn’t bad, but I can think of only a single example off-the-cuff where it led Photoshop on functionality.

    • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️@yiffit.netEnglish
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      2 days ago

      To be fair, Photoshop is (or was the last time I ever used it) expandable with user plugins. If you want something it doesn’t have, you can add it. Which is also one of the main draws, at least for me, to FOSS; open source means I can add/remove/change things for my own personal usage and needs. That really only applies because I know enough about programming to do it, though.