I remember proposing using GIMP to do a task it would have actually been well-suited for to my high school teacher like a million years ago
She told me flat out that there was no way that it would get on the school computers with that name
And I'm sure that there's a million situations like this where the unprofessional shit that FOSS bros do prevents the uptake and success of FOSS
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