Personally I haven’t. While Linux is imperfect, choosing the right distro makes the rest of the experience straightforward. And with it’s whole complexity, I find Linux more user friendly than Windows. Even driver issues, broken shadow file ownership and KDE specifics only made me more confident about my choice to use Linux after I solved everything.
You mean besides the huge time investment required to get to the point where you can meaningfully contribute?
You’ve been trained to be consumers.
You see time investment as a barrier to access.
You see problems as something other people solve and sell to you as products.
This wasn’t the intention with open source software.
Time investment is a barrier to entry.
I say this as somebody who has already made the time investment required to learn how to program, and as somebody who keeps investing time to maintain and to improve their skills in that area. Expecting the average Linux user to do the same is ridiculous.
Have you made that investment?
Also, investing in open source projects, as you know, doesn’t just have to be about coding.
It can be in documentation, testing, visual elements, community support, website maintenance, marketing and Comms, management…
Let me remind you that you wrote that,
Do you think that you can fix something not working by writing documentation? Or do you think that you can fix something not working by testing? Or do you think that you can fix something not working by investing in visual elements? And so on and so forth.
No. Obviously not. If you want to fix something not working, then you have to get your hands dirty with the source code
No. It isn’t.
Pay for commercial software if you want to complain, or fix it yourself.
I’m not expecting every Linux user to learn how to code, far from it, but I do expect them not to whine about minor annoyances like they deserve to be served by people working for free.
That’s just wild expectations.
And yeah, I have made that investment.