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

  • nestEggParrot@lemmy.sdf.org
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    1 year ago

    I too had same reaction when i received three disks. Till then i hadnt held a professional CD of anything and here i had for free. Subsequently got fedora and got turned off by how laggy it was for me.

    At that time my access to internet was through a relative and it took ~9 hours to download 1GB. Net plan was 5GB free per month except 11pm to 3 am something wouldnt count against the free limit.

    • nestEggParrot@lemmy.sdf.org
      1·
      1 year ago

      I don’t recall if there was any limit per person but it made clear it still cost them to manufacture and ship so asked not to abuse them.

      I only ordered once and got the disks for ubuntu, kubuntu and server edition of 10.04.

      Took me a few years to realise what the server edition even was. Sadly I lost all disks but pretty much used the ubunutu gnome disks quite well.