On Sun, Nov 12, 2023 at 03:17:17PM -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > FOSS is great for learning by doing, but commercial products can be a better > > choice when a family member, a friend, a neighbor, and especially clients > > and employers, want a computer, a server, a network gateway, etc.. It is > > ironically satisfying when those commercial products have FOSS on the > > inside. :-) > > Indeed, technically-inclined people are often better served with Free > Software, and Free Software can also be a great choice for large > corporations who can either have on-site techsupport people or can hire > external support, but it is a lot more difficult to find commercial > support for merely non-techie user. This is mostly the domain of > proprietary software :-(
The way out of this is having strong local user groups, which is, of course, easier in densely populated areas. In Berlin, e.g., there were several linux user groups which had "open days" (some even once a week) where people went with their hardware and got it fixed. And got to know nice people. Often at no cost. In the smaller city I live now there is at least one such place. Support your local free software support group :-) Cheers -- t
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