@neko
@Suiseiseki
\>implying it's primarily about the familiarity with the codebase
\>while it's the freedom to use as you want that matters the most

no one ever pushed ads into any libre WM or DE I know, except for that one time when Canonical retards did it.
keylogger's been present in windows since win 8, whilst hundreds of people work to make Wayland which is resistant to most software keyloggers by design a viable replacement for X which is vulnerable to them

a decent number of distros still supports 32-bit, while proprietary software (including web apps) which is just usually big balls of mud piled up over the years of cynicism and all manifestations of greed possible (including jumping on one hype train after another) just helps create e-waste.

and the network effect matters a whole fucking lot. google would've probably been way more careful in their shenanigans they've been pulling with YT for the past 2 years or so if PeerTube was more popular.

self hosted libre software is also good for businesses, since the vendors can otherwise easily abuse the available BI to gain unfair competitive advantage.

also with ms pushing for moving windows to a subscription-based model it won't be just like wearing a collar and a leash but being forced to stay on a wagie treadmill so that it doesn't electrocute you.

or the whole Embrace, Extend, Extinguish thing (Meta Threads for example)

or fucking paying for something for your Amazon Swindle or Prime and then losing it because fuck you, the license is over, you never owned anything in the first place.

to sum up, my point is if any libre software maintainer decides to enshittify it (unless it's a 'libre-ish' shit that doesn't work w/o a centralized server that is hard to self-host or federate), then a fork will follow. there were numerous instances of community taking a successful stand against such attempts but virtually no instances of successful resistance against IT corporate bloodsuckers fucking with the lusers more and more brazenly. strawberry music player, forgejo or tenacity are alive and well. Meanwhile, spez has successfully roleplayed Xi Jinping and Manifest V3 is also there after being simply put on hold for a few months in a very demagoguic way of waiting for the dust from media and community uproar to settle.
in this time and age so much depends on computing and thus so much power stems from the control over it. you either accept tyranny or defend your freedom. there is no middle ground.
claiming you need to basically know every single logic gate in your computer to truly do your computing in a free way is as ridiculous as idk, claiming you need to meet every single citizen of a large city to be a good councilor.