I'm not sure if this is just my recommendations bubble, but I've been noticing a significant uptick on YouTube lately of non-Linux-nerds publishing "why I'm switching to <FOSS thing>" videos, with their motivation being mainly practical, political or ideological (rather than technical).
It's interesting to see and I'm not entirely sure where this pattern started.
@bananas Well, "lately" more or less covers the past two years, which seems to frontrun similar developments in national and global politics.
@joepie91
Noticed this as well
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@joepie91 my extended family has been making a concerted effort to move away from Google and Meta these past few months. I think the mask-off ideological alignment with Trump was a turning point for a lot of people.
@joepie91 but if you’ve been seeing this happening for longer than that, I’m less sure.
@Gaelan I'd say I've been noticing it for the past two years or so.
@joepie91 Obviously one shouldn't exaggerate or get all "year of Linux on the desktop"-ey, but there does seem to be a gathering momentum. Not sure if it's the political climate, or the increasingly awful experience of using Windows as a consumer, or the growing stability and capability of Linux as a gaming platform, or the popularisation of user-friendly distros like Mint, or some combination of those things, or something else entirely. But it's real.
@hedders The interesting thing is that I haven't just noticed it for Linux, but also for eg. Godot or Blender!
@joepie91 Huh! I wonder if it's a reaction to the enshittification of software products generally?
@joepie91 that seems in line with political events?