We need to support honest developers programming Open Source programs
We can also vote our support: decide for better, Open Source programs from honest developers. By doing so, we can make such programs more popular and more established by giving recommendations for such programs and advise against big corporate products:
Support Electrum instead of Blockchain.com wallet
Support Firefox Browser instead of Google Chrome Browser
Support DuckDuck Go search engine instead of Google search
Support Gimp drawing tool instead of Photoshop
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I agree but some of these freeware stuff sadly aren't as good as their counterparts. For example, duckduckgo is way too stupid compared to google and google censors its results heavily and yet it still wins. Firefox is a nice browser but chrome based brave browser is better for now I think and it is also open source.
Electrum is better than blockchain.com without a doubt.
Gimp vs photoshop is a tough one if you are professional but as a hobbyist, I can tell that gimp is more than enough for me.
The most important one is Linux vs Windows. Any Linux distribution is better than any windows version. I also don't buy any hardware that doesn't offer linux support. I don't buy any software that is only available on Mac/Win. Some of them can work on wine but I refuse to go through the hassle.
Screen recording: OBS Studio
Video editing: Kdenlive
Office: LibreOffice
^ These work great.