@doliu666 I disagree. Could you elucidate me by providing examples of which propietary software you use for which the Foss alternative makes you less productive?
Also, I'm sure you know but free software refers more to a philosophical stance rather than gratis/monetary value.
In any case, in my experience using foss (or at least open source) tends to pay off in the long term, financially speaking. As I can get equally productive (although yes there's the time investment) but then don't have to keep paying for a subscription/license and I get the benefit of easily modifying it to my needs. This has been the case for things like my video editing software (kdenlive/audacity), note taking (obsidian), IDE (VSCodium/vim), etc...
@zpartacoos equally productive? and kdenlive? freakin kdenlive? seriously? It might work for you personally, but you will not stay competitive for long if you plan to run a video production/editing business on it. It still doesn't have support for optical flow ffs. And then you have the audacity(hehe) to tell me I must edit the audio in a separate program? Oh yeah and for optical flow I'll just open up slowmoVideo, such a productivity boost, I love constantly switching bewteen programs that were never meant to work together. At least say cinelerra and would shut up, since I actually know nothing about video editing, and yet still can tell kdenlive sucks.
If you can meaningfully modify it, you shouldn't be modifying it to suit your needs, you should be modifying it to suit the needs of those who can't modify it, otherwise it's not going anywhere. Find a professional video editor, learn their workflow, make kdenlive work for them, make it work for them better than anything else, do it couple of more times, get good at it, then start selling warranty on your custom installs (or more likely encounter an insurmountable obstacle give up and move on).
The only thing free systems have over the propitiatory alternatives today is that if configured properly they are more stable and requires less maintenance. The individual apps might be lacking but the base system is not going to break or slow to a crawl over time for no apparent reason, and its behaviour would usually be predictable and repeatable. It's also auditable. What's any of that good for? Selling warranties on customized installs.
And don't you put VSCodium next to vim I'll cut you.
