And yet with all those options at their disposal, many of these people feel entitled to the one they picked never changing, depriving the developers of their freedom to choose - and they're the ones doing all the work! Sometimes to the degree of directing hostility and abuse at the developers, rather than just picking another option or leveling up with a fork.
With all those choices giventothem, these people are so utterly selfish and lacking in common decency, they can't see how appropriate and important it is that those developing the software also have the freedom to choose what direction they take the fruits of theirlabor.
But I think these are just hallmarks of plain immaturity.
It reminds me of children having tantrums when mom doesn't cook the free meal they want, instead cooking what mom and dad like. That's what entitled foss users resemble, and I'm pretty sure a lot of them actually are children so what should we expect.
>> With all those choices given to them, these people are so utterly selfish and lacking in common decency, they can't see how appropriate and important it is that those developing the software also have the freedom to choose what direction they take the fruits of their labor.
As I stated elsewhere in this thread: Sometimes you don't get to choose.
If GNOME is the only desktop environment on your employer's enterprise Linux distro and you do not have root or other window manager choices due to corporate security policies then the GNOME devs' vision is what you get. Yes, it sucks to not have more options, but it is what it is.
>> It reminds me of children having tantrums when mom doesn't cook the free meal they want, instead cooking what mom and dad like. That's what entitled foss users resemble, and I'm pretty sure a lot of them actually are children so what should we expect.
Unsurprisingly, people do not like to be force-fed food they do not like:
Forks are a healthy part of FOSS, that's exactly what's supposed to happen.
If your employer sucks and limits what software you can run, don't put that on FOSS developers' backs. Find a better employer if you can't change their policy and it's that important to you.
How many Linux distros can you try out?
How many different desktop environments / window managers can you choose from?
Which text editor do you want to use?
How customizable is your text editor?
Which command line shell do you want to use? How customizable is it?
If you are accustomed to having choices, but then you suddenly do not, is that entitlement?