Is it weird to be one of those people who prefer to use open source software, but will use proprietary software if I have to?

Is there anyone else on devRant like this?!

Me too. I love GIMP to bits. I even use Notepad++.

@mrtnrdl
Yeah, probably. It's weird to see the zealots on both sides, tbh

Like for the katakana tag.

/japanese_major

I prefer open source but I will go with what the industry uses. The gimp example, it might be a good program but I'm not going to put time into learning it if Photoshop is what the market (job market that is) wants.

Why the Japanese though? Wish I could already read that ;-;

Pick the popular one, not the best one. Popularity means more support. Best one sometime means you need to support yourself. E.g. enterprise solution.

Is it wrong not to care what tools I use for work as long as they work and have adequate support if something goes bump in the code?

Personally, I just use what works better... I really don't care about open or closed source... If they made it, it's their choice to open source or close source it 😄

@Electrux I knew I'm not alone in really caring about the products design!

@Krokoklemme Transliterates a "Faito" (English consonants and Spanish verbs, no emphasis). Direct importation of the English "Fight!", used to declare one's intent to persevere or exhort someone else to.

/probably_more_than_you_were_looking_for

@Krokoklemme
@Kaji
Or in this case, start a discussion with emphasis ;)

Tbh it depends for me. If it's for personal use I'll use open source software but fuck closed source equivilants.
For business use I try to use open source whenever I can, even if the closed equivilants are better but if the company requires the use of something then, although I still rather use OSS, I'll use it.