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After I wasted an entire day trying to salvage my world view on opensource, I decided to swallow my pride and admit that opensource sometimes cannot compete with actual commercial products in functionality.
>need drivers for wacom tablet
>download opentabletdriver
>easy. one shot the installation process and finish setting up pressure and other shit
>works perfectly fine except for intermittent lapses in responsiveness
>confused, check documentation
>0 results
>after an entire afternoon of searching up shit i give up and ask jeetpt
>it tells me to enable options that doesn't exist
>get mad and install wacom drivers
>works without a hitch
>tfw a driver written by osu troons is completely useless for use case outside of osu
>im on windows 10 btw
The tablet works completely fine on linux's default drivers but since nobody with a sex life cares fan about linux, it's safe to assume that the majority of normies will get buckbroken by random issues on open source software and will thus shut down any notion of experimenting with it, leading to a purity spiral of troons sucking each other off in their project's github repos. If I was smarter I would definitely try to fix this myself, which is the entire point of opensource, but I'm not.
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With commercial software, they have an incentive to make it function to an acceptable level, before sitting on their arses and counting their money. The only advantage that opensource may have in this aspect is that they will always be progressing and updating, albeit at a slower rate. The only examples of opensource software out-competing their paid counterparts that I know of would probably be Blender, but their development team may as well be an actual studio at this point.
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But I still hold firm in my belief that opensource can be better, just with the right amount of support and organization. I would rather a simple and free program that does 1 thing really well than a complex and paid program that does 100 things really bad.
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>uses unofficial OSUtard _Windows_ driver
>surprised when it's worse than the upstream Linux driver, the Windows Ink driver, AND the Wacom vendor driver
Wow this thread might be bait
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>>41701I would be a masterbaiter if my effort post is considered bait but Windows Ink is absolutely dogshit
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>>41702Maybe don't use unofficial drivers you fucking retard. It 'just werks' on Linux because the digitizer software is packed in with the kernel and updated by Linux developers. Whatever bullshit (You) installed is a universal driver for Huion bullshit
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>>41703I know cunt. I only considered using the osutard drivers because it was opensource and because I was too stubborn to admit that that the official wacom drivers just work.
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You should use linux if you care about open-source, windows is not about open-source
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just ask claude to take the code from linux and make an executable that interprets the device, I did the same for mouse debouncing, just asked free claude to convert some 200 lines of C Linux code into win32 and it worked after the first try.
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>>41705I plan to when I save up enough for my very own computer
>>41709What model did you use? I probably only ever used either deepseek or jeetpt but I heard claude works best for code shit
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>>41706if open source is le problem, why is libwacom fine?
No the problem is (You)
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>>41712>libwacom does not make a tablet work. libwacom is merely a database with a C library wrapper for information about a tablet. It has no effect on whether that tablet works.Either I'm retarded or you're retarded
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>>41713libwacom and the digitizer drivers. They're both open source and made by Wacom Inc iirc
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You finally fget it nigger and we've all been saying this forever.
Proprietary > FOSS almost always in every category imaginable like UX, UI and functionality.
Only Blender is the exception, it's the only FOSS program that's on par with its proprietary counterparts (Maya, 3DS max, etc) and it was just as trashy until recently (I know because I tried to use Blender in 2012 and immediately gave up).
We need more people like you seriously.
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>>41736>Spywera GX le good>Too retarded to use even VLCTop tier bait
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>>41736>VLC is bad because i didn't like it>Audacity isn't open source because i said soGiggerGQD i knvvl…
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>>41725It's because the proprietary ones got fucking bloated from 50 years of development, got bought by the same company to slowly kill off or some other ridiculous shit like that and in general got mismanaged
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>>41743Im a different guy but i say vlc sucks doodoo toox on all the different os's ive hopped it barely functioned and its gui is crap, normgroids love because its their first interaction with free software geg
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>>41746Counter anecdote: VLC is the only thing working on each distro I used. Everything else tends to shit itself. VLC handles any format I dealt with, as well. Don't they also program all these compatibilities themselves, with everybody just piggybacking off of them?
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>>41734>>41736VLC is the Winrar of media players
MPV is the better open-source option and has been for years
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>>41747VLC is trash and a ram hog that barely holds itself together on anything but Windows because at least Windows can dynamically free up memory using pagination, Leenoox can't do that. All you get on Linux is the RAM, the Swap you set up if at all and that's it.
>>41743It's literally foss in name only. It gets distributed and is owned by a corporation (Aka Musehub they deepthroated Audacity) and AI (Trannies now use Tenacity geg) not by people and there are paid plans (in the form of plugins, the software itself is completely free).
It's EXACLY like Chromium, Fontbase, Firefox and Vscodium so none of them count. Richard Stallman was right btw.
So back to my original point, the only TRUE foss software that doesn't suck dick is Blender, it's the only one, maybe Godot might pass but it's still worse than Unity that's why nobody uses it geg.
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>>41739Did you know Firefox was spyware too? At least my data doesn't go to the FBI, I'd rather trust the CCP.
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>>41813>too retarded to harden firefox or downloading librewolf…
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>>41794vlc just werks, mpv is for weebs and spergs
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>>41840>too retarded to harden Opera GX or downloading literal who browser nophono cares aboutGEEEG JSID NUSOI
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>>41841Sorry, but I prefer using the superior Windows Media Player
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>>41747Lol well heres the desktop distro's i used
Fedora: shat itself and displayed random colours when i converted blu ray format files to mp4 (mpv didnt do this, and spend a hour troubleshooting ffmpeg before realising it was a player problem)
Arch: worked only when it felt like it
On my school windows laptop: it works fine and is what i use because it came preinstalled
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>>41700 (OP)>But I still hold firm in my belief that opensource can be better, just with the right amount of support and organization.This is what all sane people who value their time have been thinking and wanting for 20 years. Microsoft still doesn't have to try, which is why they want to hire jeets for low pay. They don't need to do better so they only want a low effort, relatively poorly paid, slave-like support team for arguably the single most important piece of software/suite made. Actual competition would make things so much better for everyone.
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>>41878Microsoft doesn't have to try since Linux is still a joke